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The Ethics of “Making Babies”
Thursday, April 6, 2017
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Time |
Description | Speaker |
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| 8:00 – 8:45 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast - Modell Atrium | |
| 8:45 – 8:55 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction | Louise King, MD |
| 8:55 – 9:10 a.m. | Introduction to Morning Sessions | John Petrozza |
| 9:10 – 9:40 a.m. | Criminalization of Reproductive Choice | Michele Goodwin, JD |
| 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | Creating Equal Access to Assisted Reproduction | Kimberly Mutcherson |
| 11:05 – 11:25 p.m. | Uterine Transplantation and Reproductive Autonomy: A Clinical Ethicist’s Perspective | Cristie Cole Horsburgh |
| 11:25 – 11:45 a.m. | The Tale of A Consult: Starting Uterine Transplants at BWH | Nicholas Sadovnikoff |
| 12:05 – 1:15 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Presentations: Abstracts, presenters, and room numbers in program book. Tosteson Medical Education Center* |
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| 1:15 – 1:30 p.m. | Introduction to Afternoon Sessions | David Ryley |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Getting to ‘Right’: A Blueprint for Emerging Reproductive Technologie | Eli Adashi |
| 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 2:45 – 3:15 p.m. | Freezing Eggs and Creating Patients: Reproductive Autonomy Revisited | Elizabeth Reis |
| 3:15 – 3:45 p.m. | Gamete Management and Genetic Ties: Recent Challenges in the Policy and Practice of Posthumous Reproduction |
Shirley Shalev |
| 4:15 – 4:45 p.m. | Money Changes Everything (in Fertility Treatments) | Debra Spar |
| 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Reception - Elements Cafe, Martin Conference Center* |
Friday, April 7, 2017*
| 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Joseph Martin Conference Center, Atrium Registration and Breakfast |
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| 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Introduction to Morning Sessions | Sigal Klipstein |
| 8:45 – 9:15 a.m. | The Future of Reproductive Autonomy | Josephine Johnston |
| 9:15 – 9:45 a.m. | The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproductio | Hank Greely |
| 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 11 a.m. | The Role of Provider Autonomy in ART: Honoring and Declining Patient Requests in Fertility Care |
Judy Daar |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Cross Border Reproductive Care: Legal and Ethical Issues | Glenn Cohen |
| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Martin Conference Center Lunch and Poster Presentations: Abstracts, presenters and room numbers in program book. |
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| 1:30 – 2:15 p.m. | Case for Regulation: The Experience of UK Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority | Baroness Ruth Deech |
| 2:45 – 3:15 p.m. | Prenatal Testing and Public Health: The Fig Leaf of Reproductive Autonomy | Vardit Ravitsky |
| 3:35 – 4 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 – 4:20 p.m. | Where Have All the Designer Children Gone? | Sigal Klipstein |
| 4:20 – 4:40 p.m. | Genetic Modification of Gametes and Embryos for Human Reproduction: Crossing the Germline Barrier |
Sheldon Krimsky |
| 5:00 p.m. | Closing Comments |
Each session was followed by a question and discussion period.