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30th MEETING
NATIONAL BIOETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION

Religious Views on Research
Involving Human Embryonic Stem Cells

May 7, 1999
Riggs Library, Healy Hall
Georgetown University
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20057

TENTATIVE DRAFT AGENDA

Friday-May 7, 1999

8:30 am

Opening Remarks
James F. Childress, Ph.D.

8:40 am

Catholicism
Kevin W. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., Georgetown University
Edmund D. Pelligrino, M.D., Georgetown University
Margaret Farley, Ph.D., Yale University

9:00 am

Discussion with Commissioners

9:20 am

Judaism
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Ph.D., University of Judaism
Rabbi Moshe Tendler, Ph.D., Yeshiva University
Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D., San Francisco State University

9:50 am

Discussion with Commissioners

10:10 am

Break

10:25 am

Eastern Orthodoxy
Stanley Harakas, Holy Cross Orthodox School

10:35 am

Discussion with Commissioners

10:55 am

Islamic
Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., University of Virginia

11:05 am

Discussion with Commissioners

11:25 am

Protestantism
Gilbert C. Meilander, Jr., Ph.D., Valparaiso University
Nancy J. Duff, Ph.D., Princeton University Theological Seminary

11:45 am

Discussion with Commissioners

12:05 pm

Lunch

1:05 pm

Public Comment

1:35 pm

Discussion among Commissioners

2:15 pm

Next Steps
James F. Childress, Ph.D.

2:30 pm

Adjournment