2007 Mid-Year Meeting
Workshop on Reproductive Medicine and Law
A Joint AALS and American Society for Reproductive Medicine Workshop
June 20-22, 2007
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Why Attend?
After more than two decades, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) coupled with increasingly sophisticated prenatal diagnostic techniques still raise a host of vexing questions for families, scholars, and legal and medical practitioners. Who gets access to these technologies, and why? Money is important as well as all sorts of judgments about who is “fit” to parent, whether on the basis of age, race, marital status or sexual orientation. Scholars from a variety of cross cultural, feminist, religious, and race perspectives have explored the social implications of the increasing array of choices. Questions increasingly arise about the role of state and professional regulation of these practices, and different countries have taken dramatically different approaches. The implications of ART and its use and control are far broader, shedding important light on views of the families, the practice of medicine, and the roles of different perspectives and beliefs in our society and our world. All these issues will be discussed during the workshop.
What makes this workshop, which is sponsored jointly by the AALS and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, unique is that it brings together a distinguished faculty of leading medical practitioners and legal scholars who have explored these issues over the years. Each session will include both law professors and physicians who will engage with each other and with the participants in a dialogue that promises to be both provocative and to provide new perspectives on these issues. In addition, this workshop is being held contemporaneously with the Family Law Workshop. A highlight will be a plenary session for both meetings that focuses on different perspectives on family formation with presentations on the issues that physicians encounter, a family law perspective, gay and lesbian issues, and religious perspectives, focusing on Islam.
~Planning Committee for Joint AALS and American Society for Reproductive Medicine Workshop on Reproductive Medicine and Law
Robert G. Brzyski, Ph.D., M.D. (Univ. of Texas Health Sciences Center) Vice Chair
Ellen Wright Clayton, M.D. (Vanderbilt Medical School and Law School) Chair
Judith F. Daar (Whittier)
William Gibbons, M.D. (A Woman’s Center for Reproductive Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA)
Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (New Mexico)
John A. Robertson (Texas)
Who Should Attend?
Anyone who is interested in questions of the family, what it means to be a parent, choice in a multicultural/religiously diverse/increasingly global world, or debates about the goals of medicine.
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