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Baby Makers, The

• 1980 ----- color ----- 43 min ----- 16mm
• Birth without sex, frozen embryos and selective breeding are concepts once confined to science fiction; now they are becoming reality. The birth in 1979 of Baby Louise, the world's first "test-tube" baby, received world-wide attention, yet the art of artificial reproduction is being practiced often in an atmosphere of secrecy. Explores the many controversies surrounding artificial insemination, egg-embryo manipulation (babies created outside the body) and the use of surrogate mothers. Presents advances which far exceed general public knowledge and presents an examination of the legal, moral and ethical questions these advances provoke.
• Topics: (Genetics, Medicine)

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