[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 223 (Monday, November 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70077-70078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-22990]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on 
December 8-9, 2005

AGENCY: The President's Council on Bioethics, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, 
MD, Chairman) will hold its twenty-second meeting, at which, among 
other things, it will discuss ethical issues relating to children. 
Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (though not on the agenda 
for the present one) include: Cloning, assisted reproduction, 
reproductive genetics, IVF, ICSI, PGD, sex selection, inheritable 
genetic modification, patentability of human organisms, neuroscience, 
aging

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retardation, lifespan-extension, and organ procurement for 
transplantation. Publications issued by the Council to date include: 
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond 
Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (October 2003); 
Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics 
(December 2003); Monitoring Stem Cell Research (January 2004), 
Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies 
(March 2004), Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A 
White Paper (May 2005), and Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our 
Aging Society (September 2005).

DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, December 8, 2005, from 9 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET; and Friday, December 9, 2005, from 8:30 a.m. to 
12:30 p.m. ET.

ADDRESSES: City Center Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20037. Phone 202-775-0800.
    Agenda: The meeting agenda will be posted at http://www.bioethics.gov.
    Public Comments: The Council encourages public input, either in 
person or in writing. At this meeting, interested members of the public 
may address the Council, beginning at 11:30 a.m., on Friday, December 
9. Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or 
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane Gianelli, Director 
of Communications, in advance of your intention to make a public 
statement, and give your name and affiliation. To submit a written 
statement, mail or e-mail it to Ms. Gianelli at one of the addresses 
given below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane Gianelli, Director of 
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, Suite 700, 1801 
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20006. Telephone: 202/296-4669. E-
mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.

    Dated: November 16, 2005.
Richard Roblin,
Acting Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. 05-22990 Filed 11-18-05; 8:45 am]
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