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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