Perspectives

It’s Past Time to Compensate Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization

By Emily Galpern | 09.25.2019

Biopolitical Times

Each passing year, more people die who would be eligible for reparations after involuntary sterilization in California.

Illness or Identity? A Disability Rights Scholar Comments on the Plan to Use CRISPR to Prevent Deafness

By Katie Hasson | 09.10.2019

Biopolitical Times

There has been little-to-no discussion in the press or in scientific circles about whether deafness can be called a ‘serious’ condition.

Human Genetic Modification

Ukraine's 'Baby Factories': The Human Cost of Surrogacy

By Madeline Roache, Al Jazeera | 09.13.2019

Aggregated News

Ukraine has become an increasingly popular destination for foreign couples seeking affordable surrogacy services since they became legal in 2002. But as demand grows, so do reports of alleged exploitation of both surrogate mothers and intended parents.

Assisted Reproduction

The Dignity of Disabled Lives

By Andrew Solomon, The New York Times | 09.02.2019

Aggregated News

Disabled lives are lives, and are charged with inherent dignity. Most people with disabilities don’t wish they had never been born. Some have rich lives despite their disability, but others would say they have rich lives at least in part because of their disability.

Civil Society

Human Cloning and Genetic Technology

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The Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Center for Genetics and Society, and the Worldwatch Institute cordially invite you to a briefing and discussion on

Human Cloning and Genetic Technology: The Global Challenge to Social Justice, Human Rights and the Environment

Date:	Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Time:	4:00pm - 5:30pm (light refreshments afterward!)
Location:	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Root Room (Second Floor) 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Metro:	Dupont Circle (Red Line)

Speakers:

Richard Hayes, Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society
Jurema Werneck, Executive Director, CRIOLA - Afro-Brazilian Women's Movement
John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
Gina Maranto, University of Miami, Author of The Quest for Perfection
Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute

Moderator: Marc Berthold, Program Director, Heinrich Böll Foundation

The new human genetic technologies hold both great promise and great peril. Come hear why liberals, progressives, environmentalists, feminists, human rights advocates, disability rights leaders and others are concerned, and what they believe is the responsible course of action now.

RSVP with name, title, organization, department, phone, fax, and email to Ronny Kittler, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Phone: (202) 462-7512, Fax (202) 462-5230, Email: ronny@boell.org.

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