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Lesbian couple create a child who is deaf like them
1Ethics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Childrens Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia. spriggsm@murdoch.rch.unimelb.edu.au
Journal of Medical Ethics
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
A deaf lesbian couple who sought a sperm donor with a family history of deafness in order to have a child they hoped would be deaf have attracted a lot of criticism. They have been criticised for deliberately creating a deaf child, for denying their child a hearing aid, and for raising the child in a homosexual household.
Keywords:
Genetics and Reproduction