Reproductive Technologies Conference

[Kreskin]

An international conference will be held in Nanaimo (Malaspina College) from May 24-26. The conference agenda is offers leading edge insight into the significant ethical issues, questions and concerns on New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies. Anyone in or near Nanaimo interested in where the science and issues are going, and has about $150 per day buring a hole in their pocket, has an opportunity to gain significant insight from leading experts.

Here are links to the issues being presented (agenda items):

Eric Blyth, PhD (Department of Health & Social Studies, University of Huddersfield, UK)

• “To Be or Not To Be: A Critical Appraisal of the Welfare of Children Conceived through New Reproductive Technologies.”

Maureen McTeer, LL.M. (Health), Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa

• “Nobody’s Child, Everybody’s Law or Not?”

Mikki Morrissette (Freelance Writer, Minneapolis, MN)

• “Redefining Family: The Role of Half-Siblings and ‘Birth Others’ in Donor-Conceived Lives.”

Laura Shanner, PhD. (John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta)

• “Nobody’s Child… Anybody’s Ethics?”

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD (Center for Genetics & Society, Oakland, CA)

• “Biopolitics for a Human Future”

Susan Cox, PhD (Young Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC), Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, PhD (Cultural Studies, Trent University) & Jeffrey Nisker, MD, PhD FRCSC (Schulich School of Medicine, UWO),

• “Deciding not to have that type of Child: Canadian Perspectives on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis.”

Angela Thachuk, PhD Candidate (Dept of Philosophy, University of Alberta)

• “Narratives of the Unspeakable: Attending to the Silence.”

Chantal Collard, PhD (Concordia University, Montreal)

• “What Does Surrogacy for the Benefit of Heterosexual Couples Tell Us About Maternity, Paternity, and Kinship in Western Societies?”

Juliet Guichon, PhD (Senior Associate, Office of Medical Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary), Michelle Giroux (Associate Professor, Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa)

• “National Study of Canadian Provincial and Territorial Legislation relevant to the Separation of Genetic and Gestational Motherhood”

Open Forum - “Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC)”

• Dr. Elinor Wilson (President) & Dr. John Hamm (Chairperson) – Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC)
• Francine Manseau (Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Assisted Human Reproduction Implementation Office) - Moderator
• Eric Blyth, PhD (Dept. of Applied Childhood Studies, Huddersfield, UK),
• Maureen McTeer, L.L.M. (Health), (Department of Common Law, University of Ottawa),
• Jeffrey Nisker, MD, PhD FRCSC (Schulich School of Medicine, UWO),
• Louise Vandelac, PhD (Dept of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal)

Cordelia Thomas, LLB PhD Candidate (Bioethics Council, Ministry for the Environment, Wellington, New Zealand),

• “Assisted Reproductive Technologies meet the Public.”

Vardit Ravitsky, PhD (Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania),

• “Reproductive Technologies: Jewish Values & Public Policy in Israel.”

Cynthia Siebel, Ph.D., J.D. (CD & E Consulting and Court Appointed Special Advocates – Orange County), Newport Beach, California, USA

• “Complexities, Connections & Questions: Inter-Relations of Reproductive & Genetic Technology and Cultural Change”

Eike-Henner Kluge, PhD (Dept of Philosophy, University of Victoria, BC),

• “Sex Selection: Some Ethical and Policy Considerations”

Penny Dowedoff, PhD Candidate (Dept. of Sociology, York University, Ontario),

• “Reproductive Tourism: Challenges for Transnational Feminisms”

Elizabeth Marquardt, PhD (Institute of American Values, New York City),

• “The Revolution in Parenthood: The Emerging global clash between Adult Rights and Children’s Needs - An International Appeal from the Commission on Parenthood’s Future.”

Shirley Pratten, RN (Nanaimo, BC) (Moderator)

• “Voices of Donor Conception”

Louise Vandelac, PhD (Dept of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal),

• “Reproductive and Genetic Engineering: An Ecological and Anthropological Breach.”

Jean Haase, MSW (London Health Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario),

• “Informed Decision-making in Assisted Human Reproduction: The Role of Counselling.”

Diane Allen (Executive Director, Infertility Network)

• “Looking Back, Looking Forward: A View from the Trenches.”

Caroline Jones, LLB PhD (School of Law, Univ. of Southampton, UK),

• “Changing Conceptions of Welfare.”

Sandra Reineke, PhD (Dept. of Political Science & Women’s Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow),

• “The Next Generation: the politics of new reproductive technologies in contemporary France: Some implications for women’s rights.”

Susan Robinson, RSW (Calgary),

• “Infertility and Reproductive Medicine: A Personal Perspective.”

Jenny Dunlop, MA (St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, UK)

• “The Hidden Losses of Infertility”

Sherry Dale, MSW, RSW (LifeQuest Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Toronto, Ontario).

• “Parents’ Assessment Of Emotional Risks For their Donor-Conceived Children”

Hilary Young PhD, LL.B. (Candidate) (University of Ottawa).

• “In Search of Identity: Reconciling the Interests of Gamete Donors and their Offspring in the Disclosure of Identifying Information about the Donor”

Ellen Jaffe (Writer, Hamilton, Ontario),

• “Second Coming of Age in SAMOA: An Anthropological Fable & Other Fictions – How Novelists Look at the Topic of NRTS”

Susan Sherwin, PhD, FRSC (Dept of Philosophy, Dalhousie University),

• “Nobody’s Mother: The Ethics of research on human embryos.”

Edyta Just, PhD Candidate (Women’s Studies, Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, Netherlands),

• “Between state interventions, religion, culture and society: The implications for functioning & reception of IVF in Poland and the Netherlands”

Lisa Leger, BA (Fertility Awareness Educator, Parksville, B.C.),

• “A critique of NRGTs that examines issues of safety, informed consent, reproductive health and prevention.”

Ofra Balaban, MA(CHEN Patient Fertility Association, Holon, Israel)

• “Fertility in Israel.”

Roxanne Mykitiuk, LL.M. (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) & Jeffrey Nisker, MD, PhD FRCSC (UWO)

• “Determinants of embryo ‘health’ – are there implications for children?”

Laura Machin PhD Candidate (School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK)

• “The Social Context of Embryo Donations in the UK and Australia: Counsellors, Clinicians and Support Groups”

Phyllis Creighton, MA (Faculty of Divinity, University of Toronto)

• “Making and Keeping Life Human: How Shall We Use NRGTs?”

Lauren Berliner, PhD Candidate (Communication), MA Media Arts (University of California, San Diego)

• “All in One Basket” (View Documentary – Follow up discussion led by author)

 

[L Gilbert]

Holy Moly!!!
That'd be the perfect time to show up in the morning, deposit recording device running on a chair, and going somewhere to enjoy the life you have, then coming back and repeating the procedure till the speechifying ran out.

 

[Kreskin]

Holy Moly!!!
That'd be the perfect time to show up in the morning, deposit recording device running on a chair, and going somewhere to enjoy the life you have, then coming back and repeating the procedure till the speechifying ran out.

It might be damn good cure for insomnia too.

 

[L Gilbert]

lol. Fersher.