Wednesday, Nov. 15
9:15 am - 11:00 am
(Bagels and coffee at 9:00)

Moriah Fund
One Farragut Square South
1634 I Street NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC

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PRESENTERS

	Sujatha Jesudason Dr. Jesudason's presentation [PDF] 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 policies need to be supported at the state, federal and international levels?

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:

• New human biotechnologies: implications for social justice
• Women's eggs for research and fertility treatments
• Race-based medicine
• "Designing" babies
• Disablity de-selection
• Choosing a child's sex
• New eugenic ideologies
• Ways to regulate stem cell research
• Human experimentation

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.

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, June 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