These are excerpts from panel focusing on bioethical issues. Most have been filmed at conferences and panels sponsored by the International Humanist Ethical Union which is located at UN Plaza in New York Coty.
Romania's rulers outlawed abortion to prevent the population from declining. This film tells the grim story of what resulted.
Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director of Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works for the protection of the rights of women and girls, gives a graphic list of horrendous abuses faced by women around the world today. How big a stick should an Algerian man be allowed to use while beating his wife? Laws prohibiting women from driving cars in Saudi Arabia are barely twenty-years old, the result of increasing social restrictions placed on women in recent years. Genital mutilation. Rape within marriage. Girl child brides. Wife obedience laws. These horrors do not seem to concern the United States which has not even signed on in support of international laws against the abuse of children. This is an excerpt from a panel discussion at the IHEU-Appignani Bioethics Conference, U.N.Plaza, NYC, April 23,2006 focusing on women's reproductive and sexual rights.
Arthur Caplan, one of the world's leading bioethicists, addressed the opening reception of the IHEU-Appignani Bioethics Conference at the Turkish Consulate, United Nations Plaza, NYC, on Friday evening, April 21,2006. He disclosed that a vaccine for Cervical Cancer would soon become available. Caplan predicted a great public debate would soon begin. The vaccine has to be given to young girls or women before they commence sexual activity. For girls in their early teens, this will raise questions about parental control and informed consent. The vaccination will cost $200. Access to the vaccine by women in poorer countries is especially important since Cervical Cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in those areas.
Arthur Caplan, one of the world's leading bioethicists, addressed the opening reception of the IHEU-Appignani Bioethics Conference at the Turkish Consulate, United Nations Plaza, NYC, on Friday evening, April 21,2006. He disclosed that a vaccine for Cervical Cancer would soon become available. Caplan predicted a great public debate would soon begin. The vaccine has to be given to young girls or women before they commence sexual activity. For girls in their early teens, this will raise questions about parental control and informed consent. The vaccination will cost $200. Access to the vaccine by women in poorer countries is especially important since Cervical Cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in those areas.
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