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Making perfect babies

Offers a critical look at genetic technology and its potential application in the area of human reproduction. Explores the social impact of the desire to produce perfect human beings on children, women, and the disabled.

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  • "Examen critique de la nouvelle technologie génétique et ses applications potentielles, filmé dans des cliniques de fertilité et des centres de recherche où la manipulation d'embryons humains est déjà commencée. Entrevues avec des critiques féministes telles la biologiste Ruth Hubbard et Marsha Saxton qui défend la cause des personnes handicapées. Celles-i soulèvent les questions de la justification du développement de ces technologies et leurs conséquences (eugenisme) sur la vie des femmes et de la société. La menace d'un futur où le "contrôle de la qualité" serait devenu une partie acceptable de la procréation humaine."
  • "Documents the development and use of reproductive technology and explores how science and industry have combined to transform the act of procreation into the business of making babies. Examines how a technology that began in the barnyard to make money for livestock breeders has been exported into the human realm. Discusses the risks involved with in vitro fertilization."
  • "Offers a critical look at genetic technology and its potential application in the area of human reproduction. Explores the social impact of the desire to produce perfect human beings on children, women, and the disabled."@en
  • "From a high tech marketplace in Paris, to the work being done at a fertility clinic in London, Ont. and a surrogacy center in Los Angeles, Making Babies takes a critical look at reproductive technology and provides a chiling account of its development and use. Through interviews with doctors, drug salesmen, infertile women, surrogates, and social critics and feminist activists like Gena Corea, the film explores the origins and application of the technology and the dangers it may pose to women and to society as a whole."@en
  • "This video takes a critical look at reproductive technology, particularly in vitro fertilization, and provides an account of its development and use. Through interviews with doctors, drug salesmen, infertile women, surrogate mothers, and feminist critics, the film explores the origins and application of the technology and the dangers it may pose to women and to society as a whole. The present dangers to the women and children involved in IVF, and the potential implications, particularly in ethical and social terms, are discussed."
  • "Filmed in clinics & research centres where genetic manipulation of human embryos has already begun, offers a critical examination of genetic engineering. Topics include: moral and social implications of reproductive technology ; feminist fears (expressed by Ruth Hubbard and others) for the effect on women ; ethics of the notion of quality control in human procreation."
  • "Documents the development and use of reproductive technology, suggesting that science and industry have combined to transform the act of procreation into the business of making babies. Explores the ethical, moral and legal questions surrounding in vitro fertilization and its technological offspring."@en
  • "It wasn't that long ago that infertile couples had to live with the fact they couldn't have children, but IVF, particularly sperm and egg donations, changed all that."@en
  • "A two part in depth study of in-vitro fertilisation and pre-implantation diagnosis. "Part 1: Making Babies for the Childless" Detailed account of IVF treatment and of the overwhelming social pressure that lead people to seek it. Discussion between prospective patients and embryologist. "Part 2: Making Babies for Parents at Risk" Pre-implantation diagnosis followed by IVF treatment. Discussion of inheritied mental illness. Visit to a hospital unit for genetic reasearch. Long exposition of the PID, the stresses involved, the clinical procedures the ethical problems. Inherited physical diseases: Thalassaemia, child receiving nightly chemotherapy. The distress caused by this treatment. Cystic Fibrosis, child receiving breathing assistance. The ethical problem of PID: patients have undergone repeated abortions in pursuit of a healthy foetus. This film is a sobering account of the psychological ordeal awaiting people who decide to embark on a PID - IVF programme."
  • "Documents the development and use of reproductive technology and explores how science and industry have combined to transform the act of procreation into the business of making babies."@en
  • "What happens when the most fundamental human act - the act of procreation becomes a laboratory procedure? What does it mean when science and industry become partners in the production of human life? From a high tech marketplace in Paris, to the work being done at a fertility clinic in London, Ont. and a surrogacy centre in Los Angeles, MAKING BABIES Takes a critical look at reproductive technology and provides a chilling account of its development and use. Through interviews with doctors, drug salesmen, infertile women, surrogates and feminist critics like Gena Corea, the film explores the origins and application of the technology and the dangers it may pose to women and to society as a whole. MAKING BABIES raises important questions about who reproductive technology is being developed for why. It suggests that by changing how we reproduce, we may be changing what it means to be human."@en
  • "Considers the impact of genetic technology on human reproduction and raises questions about the social and economic forces behind the research. Suggests the desire to produce "perfect" human beings may lead to a future of children as commodities and women as instruments of "quality control"."@en
  • "Forum on donor conception and new Victorian legislation enabling sperm and egg donors to contact offspring. Donors, donor conceived children, parents, and fertility experts discuss the increasingly complicated ways in which Australian families are being formed."
  • "A critical look at reproductive and genetic technology through interviews with doctors, drug salesmen, infertile women, surrogates and feminist critics. This film explores the origins and applications of the technology and the dangers it may pose to women and to society."
  • "Regard critique sur les nouvelles technologies de reproduction, leur développement et leur utilisation. Entrevues avec des médecins, des vendeurs de produits pharmaceutiques, de femmes infertiles, de mères porteuses, de critiques féministes tels Gena Corea qui explorent les origines et l'application (pour qui et pour quoi) de ces NTR et les dangers qu'elles posent aux femmes et à la société. L'industrie de l'infertilité exporte du domaine vétérinaire (zootechnie) à la procréation humaine."

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