Minutes of the Meeting of the Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology 2 July 2014 Held on 2 July 2014 at Bankside Chambers In Attendance Kate Davenport QC Chair Deborah Rowe Member Freddie Graham Member Adriana Gunder Member Brian Fergus Member Carolyn Mason Member (via teleconference) Jo Fitzpatrick Member Kirsten Forrest ECART Secretariat Apologies Apologies were received from Deborah Payne and Freddie Graham. No member of ACART was available to attend. Welcome Kate Davenport opened the meeting. Kate is nearing the end of her second term as ECART chair and she talked about what a privilege it has been to work in the area of assisted reproductive technology. Kate has found it fascinating, and at times challenging and sad. Kate will miss on the Committee and hopes to take up other opportunities to continue work in this area. Kate will be happy to help hand over the ECART role to a new Chair once appointed. The Committee expressed how much they had enjoyed having Kate as and thanked her for being a consummate Chair. Confirmation of minutes from previous meeting The minutes from ECART’s 5 May 2014 meeting were confirmed as accurate. The Committee requested the words against” be replaced with if” “discriminate “determine on page 10.
Minutes of the Meeting of the Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology 2 July 2014 Held on 2 July 2014 at Bankside Chambers In Attendance Kate Davenport QC Chair Deborah Rowe Member Freddie Graham Member Adriana Gunder Member Brian Fergus Member Carolyn Mason Member (via teleconference) Jo Fitzpatrick Member Kirsten Forrest ECART Secretariat Apologies Apologies were received from Deborah Payne and Freddie Graham. No member of ACART was available to attend. Welcome Kate Davenport opened the meeting. Kate is nearing the end of her second term as ECART chair and she talked about what a privilege it has been to work in the area of assisted reproductive technology. Kate has found it fascinating, and at times challenging and sad. Kate will miss on the Committee and hopes to take up other opportunities to continue work in this area. Kate will be happy to help hand over the ECART role to a new Chair once appointed. The Committee expressed how much they had enjoyed having Kate as and thanked her for being a consummate Chair. Confirmation of minutes from previous meeting The minutes from ECART’s 5 May 2014 meeting were confirmed as accurate. The Committee requested the words “discriminate against” be replaced with “determine if” on page 10.
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