CONTENTS:
NEWS -
Anger over donation licence
Fury as egg donation licence thrown open in UK
ANNOUNCEMENTS -
Dr. Renate Klein joins Advisory Board
New internship program
Special Reminder
ACTIVITIES -
HandsOff meets with Congressman Tom Lantos
HANDSOFF NEWS:
Anger over egg donation licence: The UK's fertility regulator has amended a licence to allow stem cell researchers to recruit egg donors not already having medical treatment. A world expert criticised the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for making the decision during a public consultation on the issue.
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Fury as egg donation licence thrown open in the UK: A fertility regulator has amended a donor licence allowing women to donate their eggs to stem-cell research even if they are not receiving fertility treatment. But they have been strongly criticised for making the decision while a public consultation is still underway.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) gave the go-ahead to The Centre for Life in Newcastle in November.
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HANDSOFF ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Renate Klein joins Advisory Board:HandsOff is proud to announce that the New Year brings to its Advisory Board, Dr. Renate Klein. Dr Klein has a background in natural sciences, women’s studies and sociology of education and until August 2006 was Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne. She has written extensively on reproductive technologies and feminist theory over the last twenty years and is the (co)author/(co)editor of fourteen books among them Test-Tube Women: What Future of Motherhood?; Infertility: Women’s Experiences with Reproductive Medicine, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed and CyberFeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity. She also co-authored an early critical work on RU 486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals and was amongst the very few feminist voices opposing RU 486 in the recent debate. She is one of the founders of FINRRAGE (Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering).
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Inauguration of HandsOff’s new internship program: The New Year also sees the inauguration of HandsOff’s new internship program. We are pleased and excited to welcome this first group of four interns:
Nicole Marchand, Frances Santiago, Ashley Silverthorn and, Yuriy Tolstykh
These dedicated young people are volunteering their time and talent towards raising consciousness about the perils to women of egg harvesting for cloning research. They will spend their year continuing to learn about the issues and working to liaison with student and civic groups to spread this information. Their energy, commitment, and creativity already have engendered much excitement regarding spreading grassroots awareness.
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Please Remember: you can help by sending those you know our website and asking them to become online signatories. We can’t spread the word without YOU!
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ACTIVITIES:
HandsOff meets with Congressman Tom Lantos' office: On January 8, 2007 HandsOff Board member Dr. Emilia Ianeva met with the Head of the Office and members of the staff at the District office of Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA) and informed them about the mission of the organization, its HandsOffOurOvaries Project and our call for a worldwide moratorium on egg harvesting.
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