SEX, RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND LAW
How the New Morality Influences Legislation and Policy

When: Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street

This specially assembled panel will address the myriad ways that the current administration's view of morality has influenced legislation and policy. Topics will include: abstinence-only sex education programs, pro-marriage welfare initiatives, and the impact of morality on sexuality and sex-related NIH funded research.

Moderator:
NAN D. HUNTER
Co-Director, Center for Health, Science and Public Policy, Brooklyn Law School; Co-author, “Sexuality, Gender and the Law.”

Speakers:
REBECCA SCHLEIFER, M.P.H.
Researcher, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Watch; Author of HRW report, “Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States -- Texas: A Case Study.”

LISALYN JACOBS
Vice President, Government Relations, Legal Momentum (formerly NOWLDEF)

BONNIE SCOTT JONES
Staff Attorney, Domestic Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights

DR. REBECCA YOUNG, Ph.D.
Sociomedical Scientist/Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, Barnard College

About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public.