Titel: Building families through donor conception - An International Forum on the Personal, Professional & Public Policy Issues
Termin:
22.6.2002
Veranstaltungsort:
222 Saint Patrick St.
Toronto
Canada
(Dundas St./University Ave. area in downtown Toronto)
Referenten: * Ken Daniels, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Counsellor, researcher, author (over 100 papers & chapters) & policy consultant to governments, professional & patient organizations on the psychosocial aspects of donor conception. Editor, "Donor Insemination: International Social Science Perspectives."; * Jean Haase, MSW, RSW. Social Worker, London (Ontario) Health Sciences Centre. Founder and facilitator of the Southwestern Ontario Donor Families Support Group.; * Jan Silverman, Coordinator, Support & Education for Infertility & Related Reproductive Issues, Women's Health Centre, Toronto.; * Q&A with Becky, Lindsey & Jeremy Peck, the family featured in the documentary, and their donor, David Ross.; * Leonie & Warren Hewitt, Donor Conception Support Group of Australia. Parents of 3 donor-conceived children (ages 11 - 18). Leonie is the National Secretary of the DCSG.; * Geraldine Hewitt. Donor-conceived Australian university student. Author of the largest international study todate of donor-conceived people.; * Professor Mary Lyndon (Molly) Shanley, Department of Political Science, Vassar College, USA. Author, "Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' Rights."; * Karen Lynn, President, Canadian Council of Birthmothers; * Catherine Clute, Co-President, Adoptive Parents Association of Nova Scotia; * Wendy Rowney, Adopted person, ASK (Adoption, Support and Kinship) about reunion; * Bill Cordray, DI Adoptee; * Eric Blyth, Professor of Social Work, University of Huddersfield, UK. Researcher, author and policy consultant to governments, professional & patient organizations on the psychosocial aspects of donor conception. Editor & contributor, "Truth & the Child 10 Years On: Information Exchange in Donor Assisted Conception." Editor, "Journal of Fertility Counselling."; * Caroline Lorbach, National Consumer Advocate, Donor Conception Support Group of Australia. Mother of 3 donor-conceived children. Editor, "Let the Offspring Speak."; * Sherry Franz, MSW, Social Worker, Hamilton (Ontario) Health Sciences Centre, START Clinic & private practice.; * Laura Shanner, Professor, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta, Canada; * Q&A with donor offspring featured in the film: Barry Stevens and his sister, Janice Botsford; * Ellen Sarasohn Glazer. Clinical social worker, private practice & the New England Medical Center. Adoption consultant. Author of "Choosing Assisted Reproduction Social, Emotional and Ethical Considerations"; "The Long Awaited Stork" & "Experiencing Infertility Stories to Inform and Inspire"; * Olivia Pratten; * Lynne Spencer; * Shelley Kreutz; * Susan Sermoneta; * Panel of parents through sperm & egg donation; * Shirley Pratten, New Reproductive Alternatives Society (Canada¹s first support, advocacy & lobby group for donor families); * Barry Stevens, Donor Offspring; * Phyllis Creighton, Bioethicist. Member, Health Canada Advisory Committee on Reproductive & Genetic Technologies. Researcher on the ethical and spiritual considerations, as well as the medical and legal aspects, of new reproductive technologies. Author of "Artificial Insemination by Donor - A study of ethics, medicine and law in our technological society" & "Secrecy and anonymity in assisted reproduction"; * Dr. Alfonso Del Valle, Infertility Specialist, ReproMed Ltd.; * Representatives also invited from: the Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society, Health Canada, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs
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