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PETBioNewsCommentFILM: Donate, Destroy or Delay? When IVF Embryos Are No Longer Needed for Treatment

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FILM: Donate, Destroy or Delay? When IVF Embryos Are No Longer Needed for Treatment

Published 9 November 2020 posted in Comment and appears in BioNews 1071

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This film documents a Progress Educational Trust event about what happens to unused embryos following the completion of fertility treatment...

This film documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'Donate, Destroy or Delay? When IVF Embryos Are No Longer Needed for Treatment', produced in partnership with the Scottish Government.

(If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)


Introduction
0:00:00 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust

Presentations
0:02:53 Joanne Leitch
Lead Clinical Embryologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
0:17:50 Kate Brian
Representative, Fertility Network UK
0:26:03 Laura Riley
Head of Policy, HFEA
0:36:42 Adèle Marston
Professor of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh

Discussion
0:46:04 Responses to audience questions and comments

This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

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