1995: Dr. GIFT
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4.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In 1995, an enormous scandal rocked the burgeoning field of reproductive medicine. This week, Christina Cauterucci tells the story of how one of the biggest ethical breaches in American medical history became one woman’s personal nightmare.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Josh Levine, the host of One Year. |
| 0:04.0 | I hope you're enjoying our season on 1995. |
| 0:08.0 | This week, I'm going to turn things over to my |
| 0:10.0 | Slate colleague, Christina Cauterucci. |
| 0:14.0 | In the early 1980s, Renee Ballue and her husband |
| 0:17.0 | had all the trappings of a perfect California life. |
| 0:21.0 | You know, we bought a home and, you know, |
| 0:24.0 | homes were very inexpensive then, |
| 0:26.0 | and we both worked and had good jobs. |
| 0:29.0 | Renee was a sales manager for a carpet mill. |
| 0:32.0 | Her husband owned his own business. |
| 0:34.0 | They had a son, a happy little boy who loved soccer. |
| 0:37.0 | And Renee's mother lived close by just a mile away. |
| 0:41.0 | We'd have dinner together and we were just a normal family. |
| 0:46.0 | But for Renee, something was missing. |
| 0:50.0 | I never wanted just to have one child, |
| 0:53.0 | but I wanted to have at least two children. |
| 0:55.0 | And it was from the time I was very young, |
| 0:57.0 | that, you know, I had that in my mind and it was going to happen. |
| 1:00.0 | And that's just the way my life was going to be. |
| 1:04.0 | We tried at least a couple of years to get pregnant |
| 1:06.0 | on our own, because we had no problem the first time. |
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