The Killing Kind author Jane Casey, AI in IVF treatment, The Knock - Evie's story

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Crime author Jane Casey joins Nuala McGovern to talk about a new six part TV adaptation of her best selling book The Killing Kind. The legal thriller starring Emma Appleton has themes such as stalking and coercion as she plays a lawyer who tries to rebuild her life after getting too close to a former client. Emma also joins Nuala in the studio.

In the second part of our series The Knock, Jo Morris talks to a woman we are calling Evie who chose to stand by and support her brother after he pleaded guilty to sex offences against children. Why did she make that decision and what has it cost her?

Some British women are now being offered IVF treatment using artificial intelligence. The software is used to help select the best embryo for implantation. So how might AI improve the chances of a successful pregnancy? Nuala is joined by Suzanne Cawood, Director of Embryology at the Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health, a private clinic in London, which has been using AI and offering it as an 'add-on' to patients. We also hear the regulator the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's position on such practices.

In a historic ruling, the Mexican Supreme Court has decriminalised abortion at the federal level. The two leading candidates in next year’s elections in will both be women, meaning that Mexico expects to have its first ever female leader. So, is the country having a feminist revolution? Nuala speaks to Daniela Philipson-Garcia, a PhD scholar and specialist on Mexico's gender policies.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, this is Neulam Agouvern and you're listening
0:08.2	to the Woman's Hour podcast. Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. Well, this hour will discuss
0:14.2	the significance of Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizing abortion. We'll also talk about its
0:20.3	feminist foreign policy and learn about the two leading presidential candidates who
0:24.9	are both women. Also, today, there's a girl guiding survey out. You might have seen
0:29.3	it this morning, looking at girls' attitudes and well-being. It did raise concerns about
0:34.8	their happiness overall, but there was one aspect that struck us. And it's this, by the
0:40.6	age of 30, 52% of girls wanted to own their own house, their own home, and 48% of them
0:48.5	wanted to be married. And I'm wondering, does any of that resonate with you? What do you
0:53.7	want to achieve by the time you're 30, if you thought about it, or what did you want
0:58.2	to achieve? And did you do it? Or maybe like looking back, how do you see those aspirations
1:03.7	now? Well, to get into the program, you can text us. That number is 84844 on social
1:08.6	media where at BBC Woman's Hour or you can email us through our website and for WhatsApp
1:13.5	or a voice note, that number is 037001444. What did you want to achieve by the time you
1:21.4	hit 30? Also, today, crime writer Jane Casey should be here with actor Emma Appleton
1:26.9	to talk about a new legal thriller, a TV series called The Killing Kind. And we have
1:32.5	another story from our series The Knock. It tells the story of what ensues. After a loved
1:38.8	one is arrested for sexual offenses against children, you might have heard one installment
1:45.5	yesterday, so that continues. All to come, this hour on Woman's Hour. But I want to
1:49.9	turn first to this story. Some British women are now being offered IVF treatment using
1:55.4	artificial intelligence or AI. The software is used to help select the best embryo for
2:01.0	implantation and is said to be able to pick up on things that the human eye cannot detect.
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