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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Desperate for Babies

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Looking to make some extra money? Have any spare eggs? Donor eggs that is - they can fetch up to $5,000. One in 10 American couples can't get pregnant, so the infertility business is booming. But what if they get more babies than they bargained for? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the latest advancements in reproductive technology and the thorny ethical questions they raise. Bioethicist Lori Andrews talks about the too-fast rate at which infertility technology is moving, and how the resulting multiple births are a public health risk. Her book is The Clone Age. Writer Paulette Bates Alden talks about her struggle with infertility and how she eventually came to terms with it. Her memoir is Crossing the Moon. Richard Rawlins, director of the In Vitro Fertilization Laboratory at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, talks about how his lab can sort sperm to help prospective parents choose the sex of their child, and anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh discusses China's one child policy that has created a crisis: because of their strong cultural bias for sons, people are using ultrasound to determine the sex of their fetuses and aborting girls. And, journalist and author Andrea Warren talks about her children's book, Orphan Train Rider, which documents the orphaned and unwanted children in NY between 1854 and 1930 who were loaded onto trains and shipped west to families who would adopt them. Plus, you'll hear from Howard Heard, one of the children, who still lives 50 miles from where he got off the train.

Language: English

Format: Audiobook

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio

Release: May 10, 2022

To the Best of Our Knowledge: Desperate for Babies

3/5 ( ratings)

Looking to make some extra money? Have any spare eggs? Donor eggs that is - they can fetch up to $5,000. One in 10 American couples can't get pregnant, so the infertility business is booming. But what if they get more babies than they bargained for? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the latest advancements in reproductive technology and the thorny ethical questions they raise. Bioethicist Lori Andrews talks about the too-fast rate at which infertility technology is moving, and how the resulting multiple births are a public health risk. Her book is The Clone Age. Writer Paulette Bates Alden talks about her struggle with infertility and how she eventually came to terms with it. Her memoir is Crossing the Moon. Richard Rawlins, director of the In Vitro Fertilization Laboratory at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, talks about how his lab can sort sperm to help prospective parents choose the sex of their child, and anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh discusses China's one child policy that has created a crisis: because of their strong cultural bias for sons, people are using ultrasound to determine the sex of their fetuses and aborting girls. And, journalist and author Andrea Warren talks about her children's book, Orphan Train Rider, which documents the orphaned and unwanted children in NY between 1854 and 1930 who were loaded onto trains and shipped west to families who would adopt them. Plus, you'll hear from Howard Heard, one of the children, who still lives 50 miles from where he got off the train.

Language: English

Format: Audiobook

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio

Release: May 10, 2022

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