International Women's
Day 2007
DO you own your own body? Should women be paid to donate eggs for research? And if someone was conceived from a donated egg, should they be told?
Just some of the issues raised in a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of science, ethics and the law, held to mark International Women's Day, and organised jointly by Women in Technology & Science (WITS) and the Bar Council of Ireland. Such are the complexities of the issues, and the speed of the scientific developments, that as the debate progressed, it became clear that there is a need for regular discussions on these topics, and perhaps even the formal establishment of a scientific-legal forum.
The speakers who addressed the invited crowd at the Law Library in Dublin, were: Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan, scientific director of the Irish Council for Bioethics; the Hon Mr Justice Peter Kelly, president of the Medico-Legal Society of Ireland; Professor Dolores Cahill, UCD entrepreneur and biologist, and member of the Science Council of Ireland; and chairman of the Bar Council Mr Turlough O’Donnell SC.
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