IVF, fraud, and 'unwanted' children
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This August, we're revisiting some of our favourite episodes from the past year.
What happens when one half of a couple becomes a parent against their will?
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
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| 0:28.0 | Hi, David Aronovich here. |
| 0:36.6 | For the next couple of weeks on Mondays and Fridays, we're listening back to some of the |
| 0:40.6 | episodes from the past year that have stuck with us. |
| 0:44.6 | In April, I spoke to a regular Times contributor, Jenny Cleeman, about her investigation into |
| 0:50.3 | what happens when a couple using IVF fall out. |
| 1:00.6 | When I was little, we were all told how it goes, when two people love each other, they |
| 1:05.0 | get together and they make a baby. |
| 1:08.4 | But then we all learn that quite often, they just can't, and that's very sad. |
| 1:13.8 | Now, many couples of all sorts turn to IVF treatment, which is improving every year. |
| 1:20.7 | But as the technology becomes more effective, it can create some unlooked for consequences. |
| 1:27.0 | It introduces this element of time that you can conceive embryos that are not just stated |
| 1:33.1 | for maybe ten years. |
| 1:35.7 | A lot can happen during the time the embryos are in the freezer. |
| 1:39.8 | Before listening to stories of our Times and the Times and the Sunday Times, I'm David |
| 1:43.0 | Aronovich. |
| 1:44.0 | Today, IVF, fraud and unwanted children. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm Jenny Cleeman. |
| 1:54.6 | I present Times Radio Breakfast at the Weekend with Luke Jones, and I'm also an investigative |
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