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February 11, 2012
Threatened Fertility
Male infertility is on the rise…and doctors around the world are looking for answers. But declining sperm rates aren’t the only thing they are finding. In a 16x9 investigation, we speak to men battling this condition and speak to fertility scientists giving hope to those with “Threatened fertility”.
February 11, 2012
Threatened Fertility
Male infertility is on the rise…and doctors around the world are looking for answers. But declining sperm rates aren’t the only thing they are finding. In a 16x9 investigation, we speak to men battling this condition and speak to fertility scientists giving hope to those with “Threatened fertility”.

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Male infertility is on the rise…and doctors around the world are looking for answers. But declining sperm rates aren’t the only thing they are finding. In a 16x9 investigation, we speak to men battling this condition and speak to fertility scientists giving hope to those with “Threatened fertility”.

The verdict is in. For three months Canadians watched the trial of a father, mother and brother accused of killing three daughters and the father’s first wife, in a secret polygamous marriage. Global reporter Lama Nicolas covered the trial and, now, in a special report for 16x9 she interviews the lead investigator in a case of “family murder”.

For almost 150 years thousands of women in Ireland were sent to live in Catholic institutions, punished for crimes like having a child out of wedlock or petty theft, and forced to work in laundries run by the Church. But this dark past is not Ireland’s alone. In a 16x9 exclusive, we discover Canadian laundries and speak to a woman who says she was born into slave labour.