Testimony on Egg Retrieval to California Senate Committee
By Francine Coeytaux, MPH
| 03. 09. 2005
Joint Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Act
(Testimony of Francine Coeytaux, MPH, Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research, before a joint hearing of the California Senate Subcommittee on Stem Cell Research Oversight, the Senate Health Committee, and the Assembly Health Committee)
Good afternoon. I appreciate the opportunity to address your
committees. My name is Francine Coeytaux. The last time I stood
before you, Senator Ortiz, I was here on behalf of the California
Advisory Committee on Human Cloning. Thank you for inviting
me again.
Today I come wearing several hats:
The first is as a social scientist and women's health advocate.
My expertise is in public health, acceptability research and
the intersection of science, politics and the interests of women.
I have spent the last twenty years working on the development
and public introduction of new reproductive technologies including:
NORPLANT, emergency contraception, microbicides and the abortion
pill. I am a founder of the Pacific Institute for Women's Health
based here in California whose mission it is to improve the
health and wellbeing of women worldwide. I also helped found
the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, an organization
based in...
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