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On this week's program:
PGD, or pre implantation diagnosis, has been used to screen for genetic diseases, but a growing number of doctors are operating at the far ethical limits of PGD, or, some would say, well beyond those limits. They analyze embryo's DNA to separate the sexes - then the parents pick male or female to be placed in the womb and become a planned boy or girl. A Johns Hopkins University Genetics and Public Policy Center survey of 3,000 PGD procedures in 2005 found that one of every eleven was performed for sex selection alone. And that 42% of PGD clinics were offering this service. Lonny Shavelson reports on the use of PGD for sex selection.
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The results of a long awaited study on day care and behavior are in... and lots of parents who choose to, or have to place their kids in day care are pretty frustrated. The study shows keeping a preschooler in a day care center for a year or more increases the chances that the child will be disruptive in class.
Amy Anderson is here to talk about the study. Amy is the mother of three and the founder and editor of Mamazine, a web zine for feminist moms and the people who care about them.
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Mary takes a look back at women's history for the month of April...
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We continue our look back at women's history now with Emma Goldman. This Lithuanian Immigrant became known as the most dangerous woman in America for her contribution to anarchist politics. But Emma Goldman fought with her Anarchist colleagues for most of her life over issues of gender, sexual freedom and feminism. Over the last few weeks we've been talking about early feminist thinkers like Emma Goldman... and how the demands of femininity and the expectations of the time influenced their lives. Lori Marso is the author of Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininty: The Lives and work of intellectual women. Marso says Goldman was constantly struggling to make people understand how important gender issues were to the anarchist movement...
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Kate Mulgrew has another episode of, Herstory .
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Singer songwriter Siobhan Quinn is in the artists spotlight this week. Her repitoire includes Celtic, and American Folk music, jazz, blues and soul. Here she is with her husband Michael Bowers, from their new album Dreamers Lovers and Outlaws with a song called, Let it Come .
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