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Funds to support planning bioethics seminar for women state legislators
SEATTLE, WA, March 13, 2006: The Women’s
Bioethics Project (WBP) today announced it has received a grant from
the Ford Foundation. The funding will support a mid-March planning
meeting in Washington, D.C., to organize the first-ever Bioethics
Seminar for Women State Legislative Leaders.
Developed in partnership with the Center for Women Policy Studies, a
Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the goal of the bioethics seminar is
to prepare women state legislators to take leadership positions on
emerging bioethics issues in health and biotechnology. The planning
meeting convenes March 21st, and it will include leaders from the
fields of bioethics, medicine, law, and women’s reproductive and human
rights.
“We are starting at a state legislative level because that’s where many
of these complicated bioethical issues tend to emerge,” said Kathryn M.
Hinsch, founder of the WBP. “We firmly believe that women’s voices need
to be heard, as women are uniquely affected by issues in biotechnology
and healthcare. Women carry babies, live longer than men, and are the
predominant caretakers for children, the sick, disabled and elderly
people. By providing women legislative leaders the support they need to
champion these issues, we can help ensure that the entire spectrum of
human experience is represented on these critical issues.”
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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