Thursday, June 15
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Lunch & continued discussion, 12:00-1:00

Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
New York City, New York

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PRESENTERS

	Dorothy Roberts Professor of Law, Northwestern University Author, Killing the Black Body
	Sujatha Jesudason Program Director on Gender, Justice and Human Genetics Center for Genetics and Society
	Richard Hayes Executive Director Center for Genetics and Society

New human biotechnologies hold potential for both great good and great harm. How can we reap the benefits they offer while minimizing the risks they pose for women's health, social and racial justice, human rights, and our common humanity?

What political challenges do we face, and what responses are needed?

What organizations are currently working to bring these issues to the attention of key constitutencies, opinion leaders, and policy makers?

Come learn about and discuss:

Stem cell research and human cloning
Choosing a child's sex
Eggs for research and fertility
Race-based medicine
"Designing" babies
Disablity de-selection
Human experimentation
Dangers of new eugenic ideologies
 

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE ANY OTHER ASSISTANCE, PLEASE CONTACT:
Leah Ottersbach
Center for Genetics and Society
510-625-0819 x 307

 

RESOURCES

Selected resources on gender, justice and human genetics are shown below. Search the CGS website for more.

BOOKS

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, by Dorothy Roberts (Vintage Books, 1998).

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena Gutiérrez (South End Press, 2004).

CONFERENCE REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Report on the historic conference, Gender and Justice in the Gene Age, May 2004, New York City

Background packet on Race, Gender and Justice in the Gene Age

Conference Report: Inequality, Democracy, and the New Human Genetic Technologies, July 2004, New York City

"Between Scylla and Charybdis: Reproductive Freedom after September 11," Keynote Address, Annual Convention, National Abortion Rights Action League, Washington, D.C., (November 9, 2001)

CGS Briefing for United Nations Delegates on human cloning, October 2002.

George J. Annas, "Genism, Racism, and the Prospect of Genetic Genocide," presented at the World Conference Against Racism (September 2001)

ARTICLES

The Future of Violence Against Women: Human Rights & the New Genetics
US Women Without Borders | Feb. 23, 2006 Sujatha Jesudason

Eggs vs. Ethics in the Stem Cell Debate (The NationOnLine). November 2005.

Rupsa Mallik, "A Less Valued Life: Population Policy and Sex Selection in India," Newsletter of Center for Health and Gender Equity (October 2002)

Judith Levine, "What Genetic Modification Means for Women," World Watch (July 2002)

Civil Society Organizations Oppose Sex Selection Technologies. January 2002. This letter signed by over 150 women's health leaders and others demonstrates the depth and breadth of the concerns raised by proposals to commercialize "sex selection" techniques.

"Women's Health and Reproductive Rights Leaders Call for Cloning Ban," Genetic Crossroads (#19, April 18, 2001)

"Human Rights in a Post-human Future." Chapter by CGS Associate Director Marcy Darnovsky's in the book Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age, Sheldon Krimsky and Pete Shorett (Eds). She distinguishes between "social justice" rights and "individual autonomy" rights

Dorothy Roberts, "Race and the New Reproduction," in Killing the Black Body (New York: Pantheon, 1997), pages 104-149