[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 13 (Monday, January 22, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2694-2695]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-755]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on 
February 15-16, 2007

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-eighth

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meeting, at which it will (1) Consider and discuss policy proposals in 
organ procurement, allocation, and transplantation; (2) hear 
presentations on and discuss issues in clinical applications of 
advancements in genetics, as well as genetics policy and ethics; and 
(3) discuss contributions to a pending Council report and volume on the 
bioethical significance of the concept of human dignity. All agenda 
items are continuations of previous Council discussions. Subjects 
discussed at past Council meetings (although not on the agenda for the 
February 2007 meeting) include: therapeutic and reproductive cloning, 
assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience, aging 
retardation, and lifespan-extension. 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, February 15, 2007, from 9 
am to 5:15 pm, ET; and Friday, February 16, 2007, from 8:30 am to 12 
noon, ET.

ADDRESSES: The Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1001 14th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20005. Phone 202-682-0111.
    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 11:45 am, on Friday, February 16. 
Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or 
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane M. 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 M. Gianelli, Director of 
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, Suite 700, 1801 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20006. Telephone: 202/296-
4669. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.

    Dated: January 11, 2007.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E7-755 Filed 1-19-07; 8:45 am]
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