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PGD Public Debate - London - July 16th 2007
PARENTS OR PARLIAMENT: embryo testing, who decides?
A public debate organised by Progress Educational Trust
6.30pm
Monday 16 July 2007
Guardian Newsroom | London | EC1R 3GA
Should regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) - the technique used to test embryos for genetic mutations that cause disease - be more strict than that of prenatal testing? Is it the Government's role to impose boundaries on PGD, or should it be a decision for parents and their clinicians to make?
SPEAKERS
* Ann Furedi
BPAS
* Alison Lashwood
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital
* John Wyatt
University College London
REGISTRATION
This event is free of charge but places must be booked in advance. To book please contact Progress Educational Trust via email
(admin@progress.org.uk) or call 020 7278 7870
This event is funded by the Wellcome Trust and is part of a series of three debates exploring issues in genetics.
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You can read more about the subject of this debate in the following commentaries recently published in BioNews:
-Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and 'slippery slopes' - Dr David King, Human Genetics Alert:
http://www.bionews.org.uk/commentary.lasso?storyid=3441
-PGD and the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill - John Gillott, freelance writer and co-author of 'Science and the Retreat from
Reason':
http://www.bionews.org.uk/commentary.lasso?storyid=3469
-Regulating IVF and embryo research: Balancing clarity with flexibility - James Lawford Davies, Bevan Brittan LLP and Lecturer in Law and Medicine at the Institute for Human Genetics, University of
Newcastle:
http://www.bionews.org.uk/commentary.lasso?storyid=3479 |
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