- Title: UK/USA: BRITISH COUPLE GIVEN GO-AHEAD TO CREATE 'DESIGNER BABY' TO SAVE SON.
- Date: 23rd February 2002
- Summary: (U7) LEEDS, ENGLAND; UK (RECENT) (ITN - *****NO ACCESS UK/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet)***** 1. MCU: SHAHANA HASHMI WITH HER SON, ZAIN, WHO IS CRITICALLY ILL WITH A BLOOD DISEASE 0.13 (U7) LONDON, ENGLAND; UK (FEBRUARY 22, 2002) (ITN - *****NO ACCESS UK/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet)***** 2. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (English) JANE DENTON, BRITISH HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY AUTHORITY (HFEA), SAYING: We have today made a decision to allow a couple, who wish to have another child, but who are at risk at passing on a very serious genetic disease, to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to select an embryo which will be free from this disease and also to use tissue typing so that the stem cells from the blood of the resulting baby may be used to treat an existing child, their young son, who is currently very seriously ill. 0.38 (U7) LEEDS, ENGLAND; UK (RECENT) (ITN -*****NO ACCESS UK/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet)***** 3. MV/CU: ZAIN WITH HIS FATHER, RAJ HASHMI (2 SHOTS) 0.46 (U7) LONDON, ENGLAND; UK (FEBRUARY 22, 2002) (ITN - *****NO ACCESS UK/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet)***** 4. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) DOCTOR VIVIENNE NATHANSON, BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, SAYING: The concern is, whether in future there would be applications to take samples of tissue from an infant itself with the distress and potential risks associated, and secondly, whether children will be created not because they were wanted in and of themselves, but simply to be donors for an older child. 1.06 (U7)LONDON, ENGLAND; UK (FEBRUARY 22, 2002) (ITN - *****NO ACCESS UK/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet)***** 5. CU: SOUNDBITE (English) DOCTOR JOHN MILLS, BRITISH FERTILITY ASSOCIATION, SAYING: I don't think it's going to start a rush of rather superficial cases coming through. I don't think there are hordes of people out there waiting for what are often called designer babies, I think it will continue to be taken very seriously. 1.20 6. MV: WIDE SHOT OF DOCTOR JOHN MILLS, BRITISH FERTILITY ASSOCIATION, TALKING TO REPORTER 1.26 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: LEEDS AND LONDON, ENGLAND; UK/FILE (UNKNOWN LOCATION, USA)
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