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Subject: BioNews announcement: Chosen Children conference: 25/11/03
As a BioNews subscriber, you might be interested in the following
one-day conference:
CHOSEN CHILDREN
Reproductive decision making and the welfare of children
Organised by Progress Educational Trust http://www.progress.org.uk
Sponsored by Epalan http://www.epalan.com
10am - 5pm
Tuesday 25 November 2003
Institute of Child Health, Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH
Reproductive and genetic technologies are providing us with more
choice over when we have children and, increasingly, what
characteristics they will have. But what is the impact on the
children? Are they helped or harmed by increased parental choice?
PROGRAMME
* Professor Susan Golombok | City University, London
'ART children: a cause for concern?'
* Professor Brenda Almond | University of Hull
'The welfare and rights of children in ART'
* Professor John Harris | University of Manchester
'The right to found a family'
* Peter Brinsden | Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge
'Refusing fertility treatment to special groups: acceptable in 2003?'
* Judge David Harris QC | Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool
'The legal implications of refusing to treat particular patients'
* Alison Lashwood, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London
'Difficult decisions in preimplantation genetic diagnosis'
* Professor Julian Savulescu | University of Oxford
'Why we should allow people deliberately to create disabled children'
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REGISTRATION
To register, please complete the form below and send it, with a
cheque payable to Progress Educational Trust, to:
Events
Progress Educational Trust
140 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8AX
If booking through an institution or organisation, you may request an
invoice.
I would like to attend 'Chosen Children'.
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Address ..............................................
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*We will be sending out confirmation and background information via email
Rates (please tick as appropriate)
[] £100 Standard
[] £50 PET Friend (annual Friends rate: £20
http://www.progress.org.uk/Friends)
[] £30 Student
[] I enclose a cheque for £ (Cheques payable to Progress Educational
Trust)
[] I would like to be invoiced (Institutions/organisations only.
Please include details of the person to be invoiced, if different
from above.)
[] Please send me a receipt
Terms: refunds can be given, if requested by 5pm GMT, Tuesday 18 November
2003.
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Copyright Progress Educational Trust 2003
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