The Reproduction Revolution

Plenary Speakers

Thursday, June 16

• The Experience of Reproductive Difficulties - William Cutrer, MD; Joleen Zivnuska, RN, MSN; and Jeannie French, MA
• The Quest for Control - Joni Eareckson Tada

Friday, June 17

• The Challenges and Casualties of the Sexual Revolution - David Hager, MD
• Crucial Starting Points: The Drive to Have a Child ‘Like Me’ - Gilbert Meilaender, PhD
• Crucial Starting Points: Separating Reproduction and Sex: Contraception and Beyond - Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD; Gilbert Meilaender, PhD; and Allen Verhey, PhD
• Facing the Future: Human Cloning - John Kilner, PhD
• Facing the Future: Making Laws and Changing Hearts - Gracie Hsu Yu, MHS; John Kilner, PhD; and Paige Cunningham, JD

Saturday, June 18

• Reproductive Technologies Within Marriage - Tom Elkins, MD
• Reproductive Technologies Outside of Marriage: The Use of Donor Eggs and Sperm - Teresa Iglesias, PhD
• Reproductive Technologies Outside of Marriage: Surrogate Motherhood - Scott B. Rae, PhD; Teresa Iglesias, PhD; and Agneta Sutton
• Strategic Responses: Affirming the Family - Charles Sell, ThD
• Strategic Responses: Effective Education - Joe McIlhaney, MD; Charles Sell, ThD; and Reed Bell, MD

Parallel Papers

Friday, June 17

• Case of the Abortive Surrogate (Staged Trial) - C. Christopher Hook, MD; C. Ben Mitchell, PhD; Nik Nikas, JD; R. Martin Palmer, JD, et al.
• Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? - Randy Alcorn, ThM; Walt Larimore, MD
• Induced Abortion as Violating the Conscience of Women - Thomas Strahan, JD
• Abortion: Truly a Beneficial Option for Women? - Ann Vogel, RN
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Public Policy and Postmoderns: The Spider, the Web, the Fly - Mary Adam, MD
• Viagra and the Goals of Medicine - Donal P. O'Mathuna, PhD
• Toward a Christian Perspective on the Moral and Theological Status of Early Embryos - Robert Evans, PhD
• Some Metaphysical Puzzles Concerning Human Embryogenesis - A.A. Howsepian, MD
• Sexual Ethics and Reproductive Technologies - Dennis Hollinger, PhD

Saturday, June 18

• Human Rights and the Right to Abortion - Winston Frost, JD
• Prenatal Genetic Testing and the Risk of Abortion - Martha Newsome, DDS
• Should Physicians Be "Value Neutral" The Case of Breast Cancer and Abortion - John Peppin, DO
• A Healthcare System that Pursues Life Not Death - Michael J. O'Dea, MBA
• A Clinical Ethics Perspective on Assisted Reproductive Technology - Robert Orr, MD
• Limiting Abortion: Legislative Compromise as Moral Strategy - Jay Sappington, MA
• Human Cloning: Technological and Moral Imperatives in Tension - Rebecca Davis Mathias, PhD
• Should Cloning Humans Be Legally Banned? An Examination of the Constitutional Right to Procreate - Charlene Kalebic, CPA
• Legal Philosophy, the Ten Commandments, and Roe v. Wade - Thomas Strahan, JD
• Response to Iglesias and Rae on Reproductive Technologies Outside of Marriage - Agneta Sutton

Courses

• Intensive Bioethics Institute - Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD
• Advanced Bioethics Institute - John Kilner, PhD and Harold O. J. Brown, PhD
• Bioethics Institute on Abortion - Francis Beckwith, PhD
• Pre-Med Bioethics Institute - Joyce Shelton, PhD
• Wrap-Around Conference Graduate Course - Harold O. J. Brown, PhD
• Wrap-Around Conference Undergraduate Course - Joyce Shelton, PhD
• Post-Conference Seminar: The Changing Face of Health Care - Harold O. J. Brown, PhD
• Post-Conference Seminar: Genetic Ethics - C. Ben Mitchell, PhD