My Baby: A Life Worth Living?
Director: BBC
Year: 2006
Country: UK
Rating: N/A
Filed under: Eugenics and Genetic Enhancement, Documentary
Candida Harris explores the emotional and practical dilemmas faced by couples desperate for children, yet all too aware of the implications of passing on their disability to their children. Disabled herself, with a 50 percent chance of passing the condition on to her child, Candida speaks to four different women and their families, who find themselves in a similar situation. One couple's only definite way of avoiding passing a condition on to their second child would be to get pregnant, then screen and abort if the condition is detected. The second family has a severe genetic condition which cannot be found during a screening process. Others have knowingly passed on disabilities to their offspring. The film also explores new developments in reproductive technology - in particular, one technique which can produce a baby free of a certain condition. (Aired BBC4, Wednesday 26 April 2006, 21.00; re-broadcast BBC Two, Wednesday 24 May 2006)
This Biomedical Ethics Film Library is being presented in partnership with European Medical Students' Association (EMSA)
Film Topics
- Abortion (9)
- Biomedical Research (14)
- Bionics and Cyborg Technologies (8)
- Care of the Elderly and Geriatrics (3)
- Creation Identity - Sperm, Egg and Embryo Donation (22)
- Eugenics and Genetic Enhancement (37)
- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (28)
- Human Cloning (31)
- Human Dignity - Full Moral Status (10)
- Human Embryology (16)
- Human Genetics (14)
- Human Sexuality and Biology (1)
- Human Transplantation (17)
- Human-Nonhuman Hybrids and Chimeras (11)
- Neuroethics and the Neurobiology of Moral Responsibility (1)
- Organ Trafficking (13)
- Psychiatry (34)
- Surrogacy (5)
- Xenotranplantation (9)