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SEATTLE, WA, February 20, 2006: The Women’s
Bioethics Project (WBP) today announced that it has established an East
Coast Advisory Board, which has attracted some of the most prestigious
and respected leaders in the fields of bioethics, medicine and
reproductive rights. The advisory board will provide guidance and
strategic direction to the WBP as it continues in its mission to serve
as a bridge between scholarship and policy-making, ensuring that
women’s voices, health concerns and unique life experiences are brought
to bear on ethical issues related to health care and biotechnology.
The members of the newly formed WBP East Coast Advisory Board include the following:
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visiting professor of law, University of California, Berkeley; Knowles
Professor of Law & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law and
Medical Schools
- public relations consultant; Council of Advocates, Planned Parenthood of New York City
- chair, board development, Planned Parenthood of New York City
- Adelaide R. Snyder Professor of Ethics, Florida Atlantic University
- corporate manager, art historian, principal ARTLIFEdesign, LLC
- president, Catholics for a Free Choice
- associate professor of philosophy, Michigan State University
- Associate Adjunct Professor, University of Vermont, lawyer, and consultant
- professor emerita, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago; MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
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senior fellow, Center for American Progress; Emily Davie and Joseph S.
Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics; director, Center for
Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia
- chief operating officer, NexGenix Pharmaceuticals
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distinguished professor of Health Care Ethics in the Department of
Philosophy; director, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
- president, Center for Women Policy Studies
“The
addition of so many recognized and
thoughtful individuals to our East Coast Advisory Board will
significantly strengthen our position as an authentic and important
voice within current and emerging bioethics debates,” said Kathryn M.
Hinsch, founder of the WBP. “We are so pleased that they have agreed to
join us in our efforts.” The newly established East Coast board will
work closely with our West Coast advisory board, which was established
in 2004 and has guided the organization from its inception.
As the WBP highlighted in a recently released white paper titled
“Bioethics and Public Policy: Conservative Dominance in the Current
Landscape,” a majority of well-established conservative think tanks in
the United States, which have traditionally focused on broad economic,
social and foreign policy issues, have in recent years added bioethics
to their political agendas.
“Many of these conservative think tanks are groups that have not
consistently concerned themselves with the best interests of women,”
said Leslie Wolfe, president of the Center for Women Policy Studies, a
Washington, D.C.-based research institute. “I believe that’s where the
Women’s Bioethics Project comes in: By allowing people to see these
issues through a gender lens, the WBP contributes a significant
dimension that is often missing from many of today’s bioethical
discussions.”
The Women’s Bioethics Project is an independent, nonpartisan,
public-policy think tank based in Seattle. WBP is dedicated to ensuring
that women’s voices, health concerns and unique life experiences will
be represented in discussions and decisions about ethical issues in
health care and biotechnology.
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