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Article: IVF doctor is the victim of a witch hunt, claim patients ; Parents take to the streets to show backing for 'Panorama' fertility expert 'unfairly subjected to trial by television'

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The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
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January 21, 2007
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Scores of IVF parents will take to the streets today demonstrating in support of the controversial fertility doctor Mohamed Taranissi. Regarded as "the baby god" by many of his patients, Dr Taranissi found himself at the centre of a media furore last week after a clinic run by him was accused in a Panorama documentary of offering healthy women IVF. He is now being investigated by health watchdogs.

A number of his former patients, with their families, will today assemble outside one of his two central London clinics, the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre (ARGC), to back the embattled specialist.

The group, which includes the actress Joanna Taylor, say Dr Taranissi, 52, is the ...

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