Podcasts & Audio
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Sue Perkins Podcast
"Carrie Jade Does Not Exist: Episode 3 The Surrogate". Sue Perkins and Katherine Denkinson examine the story of how one woman, who took on over six different identities, infiltrated the lives of vulnerable people, and lied her way into gaining their trust. Episode 3 of this 6 part series tells the story of how one woman became an au pair and a surrogate, also featuring fertility lawyer Louisa Ghevaert discussing surrogacy law.
(21 November 2023)
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
"Pyschedelics, Peripheral friendship, Posthumous Conception, Beach Guardian" featuring fertility lawyer Louisa Ghevaert discussing the legalities of posthumous conception in the UK.
(24 August 2023)
Ribbon Box Interview
What do we mean by 'parentage' (in and out of courts)? with Louisa Ghevaert and Eloise Edington, founder of fertility lifestyle platform Ribbon Box, discussing questions around parentage and DNA testing
Louisa discusses the different meanings of parentage, a ‘Declaration of Parentage’ and why this might be needed, implications of direct-to-consumer DNA testing, plus her top tips when building a family from an experienced legal perspective, whatever your path to parenthood.
(9 September 2022)
BBC World Service: Business Daily Broadcast
“The economics of older mums” featuring Louisa Ghevaert (commencing at 04.21 mins) discussing later life parenthood and whether workplace law is keeping up with those undergoing fertility treatment.
(12 October 2021)
Ribbon Box Podcast
"The Intricacies of Fertility Preservation" with Louisa Ghevaert and Eloise Edington, founder of fertility lifestyle platform Ribbon Box.
Louisa explores why people preserve their fertility, how demand for fertility preservation has increased due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on family building and the fertility treatment sector, legal implications and need for fertility law reform in the UK. Louisa gives insight into some of the challenging and complex fertility preservation cases she has dealt with and the need for more awareness and protection for individual fertility and biological legacy. She discusses the growing demand for egg freezing, treatment costs and success rates and the complex legal issues around egg, sperm and embryo storage limits in the UK.
(17 December 2020)
Speak From The Body Podcast
"Fertility law for modern families" with Louisa Ghevaert and osteopath, doula and zero-balancer Avni Trivedi founder of Avni Touch for her Speak From The Body series.
Louisa discusses a range of issues including: the growing need for fertility law services in the UK,why family building is becoming increasingly legally and medically complex, lack of international harmonisation of IVF and parenting law, growing use of assisted reproduction, genomic technology in fertility treatment, gene editing, genomic screening, genetically planned parenthood, increasing age of parenthood, issues of consent, regulation of fertility tourism, embryo research, DNA testing, donor conception and more.
(26 February 2020)
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
"The Commercial Surrogacy and Fertility Industry in India and the proposed law changes" with Louisa Ghevaert.
.(20 September 2016)
BBC World Service: Have Your Say
Interview on international commercial surrogacy, featuring Louisa Ghevaert.
(20 February 2015)
BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
"Should surrogacy be easier?"with Louisa Ghevaert and Dr David King, Director of Human Genetics Alert.
(21 January 2011)
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
"The ethics of paying for surrogacy" with Louisa Ghevaert, Barry Barlow-Drewitt and writer Julie Bindell.
(19 January 2011)
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