# Choosing your baby

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Baroness Ruth Deech DBE
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Law
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/choosing-your-baby)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How IVF and embryology have developed to enable would-be parents to use embryo diagnosis to select an embryo free of an inherited disease. We will question whether this has an adverse effect on attitudes towards the disabled. How do we draw the line between eugenics and doing the best for the unborn child? The advantages and disadvantages of choosing the sex of a baby, and attitudes in other countries. In future might it be possible to select the child's traits through embryo selection? The new law on this will be explained.

## Lectures

1. [Choosing your baby](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/choosing-your-baby/9fb29aa8c64b) (YouTube)