Press conference: Pro-choice opposition to Proposition 71 [audio]
Press Statement
On October 27, the Prochoice Alliance Against Proposition 71 held a telephone-based press conference featuring a panel of experts including:
- Deborah Burger, RN, is President of the 58,000-member California Nurses Association, the state's largest professional organization of registered nurses.
- Paul Billings, MD, PhD, is a Co-Founder of GeneSage and the Editor-in-Chief of GeneLetter. He is an internationally recognized authority on medical genetics and biomedical policy. He is an internationally recognized authority on medical genetics and biomedical policy, a stem cell researcher, and currently an executive of a genetic testing company.
- Francine Coeytaux, Pacific Institute for Women's Health Founder and an international leader in the field of women’s reproductive health, served from 1998-2001 on the State of California’s Advisory Committee on Human Cloning.
The panel was moderated by Marcy Darnovsky, associate executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, a public interest organization working for the responsible social governance of human biotechnologies.
Timing:
- 0:27 - Marcy Darnovsky
- 1:43 - Deborah Burger
- 6:31 - Paul Billings
- 11:34 - Francine Coeytaux
- 21:39 - Marcy Darnovsky
- 23:45 - Questions