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When I looked at the link, it seems to be saying that the bill is more aimed for people who show a preference to a deaf embryo over a hearing one, so in other words having preimplantation genetic diagnosis on the embryos to locate the deaf ones to return to the uterus and discarding the hearing ones. So in other words, they don't want people to deliberately create deaf babies.
I am UK born and bred and I don't think they would go as far as to prevent deaf people with deaf genes from getting IVF to get pregnant if they have fertility problems.
I'm sure though that the converse (keep the hearing embryos but discard the deaf ones) would still be allowed, which seems a bit of a double standard to me.
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