Bono spoke at The California Women's Conference 2008 in Long Beach, CA. Christine wanted to attend but couldn't due to her pregnancy, so she gave her two tickets to a couple friends.
He calls for support of the ONE Campaign to hold both presidential candidates accountable in the fight to end extreme poverty. His speech is broken into 5 parts on YouTube, but you can see two of them here (part 2 & 5):
Bono emphasizes that you can't change the world until you change your worldview. Money.
"America is not a country. It's an idea." Great closing.
My old post on his worldview, "Bono With A Purpose... Bono On Grace"
Showing posts with label women's issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's issues. Show all posts
Friday, October 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
"Trading on the Female Body: Exploitation of Women for Eggs"
Christine set up this TechTalk at Google for Jennifer Lahl, Founder and National Director of the Center for Bioethics & Culture and Founding Director with Hands Off Our Ovaries, an international campaign raising awareness of the dangers of egg harvesting.
ABSTRACT
One quick Google search on "egg donation" will demonstrate how prevalent the ads are to "make dreams come true" or "help create a miracle".
Women on Ivy League campuses across America and poor women from around the world are being heavily recruited to "donate" their eggs to fertility clinics and now for cloning research.
Sadly, egg donation has less to do with altruism and more to do with the exploitation of women--particularly young women and often poor women who are usually facing large debts or just trying to make ends meet. Egg donation puts women's health and safety at risk. Newer trends in fertility medicine are moving away from current practices which are harmful to infertile women but neglect the nameless, faceless egg donor women.
People of all political and religious stripes have organized all around the world to call attention to the risks of egg donation practices.
ABSTRACT
One quick Google search on "egg donation" will demonstrate how prevalent the ads are to "make dreams come true" or "help create a miracle".
Women on Ivy League campuses across America and poor women from around the world are being heavily recruited to "donate" their eggs to fertility clinics and now for cloning research.
Sadly, egg donation has less to do with altruism and more to do with the exploitation of women--particularly young women and often poor women who are usually facing large debts or just trying to make ends meet. Egg donation puts women's health and safety at risk. Newer trends in fertility medicine are moving away from current practices which are harmful to infertile women but neglect the nameless, faceless egg donor women.
People of all political and religious stripes have organized all around the world to call attention to the risks of egg donation practices.
Friday, July 11, 2008
"Berkeley Women Speak Out On Egg Donation!"
I serve on the board of the Center for Bioethics & Culture. Through this position I have come to learn about the atrocities of the egg donation business and how it damages the reproductive capabilities of thousands of unsuspecting women. Check out the video and read Jennifer Lahl and Josephine Quintavalle's article, "Unscrambling the Human Egg Donation Debate"
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