Subject: 2016: The year of GM humans?
From: Center for Genetics and Society <[email-masked]>
To: "Subscriber " <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:55:32 +0000

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Dear Subscriber,
2015 was a tipping-point year for a momentous concern: the genetic modification of future children and generations.
This prospect is now on the near horizon because of the sudden development of cheaper, more accurate, and easier-to-use &ldquo;gene editing&rdquo; techniques.
Fortunately, we are in a position &ndash; with your help ( https://networkforgood.rsvp1.com/s1414flJjsot ) &ndash; to influence the decisions that will soon be made to guide the future of this potentially society-altering technology.
As the public debate about heritable genetic modification surges, we&rsquo;re charting an &ldquo;insider-outsider&rdquo; strategy.
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We&rsquo;re playing a role in the official processes set in motion by scientists: Our views are being solicited by high-profile mainstream and scientific media, and we&rsquo;re being invited to speak at key meetings, including the &ldquo;International Summit on Human Gene Editing ( http://nationalacademies.rsvp1.com/s1568flJjsoA )&rdquo; that convened close to 500 people in Washington, DC in early December.

*At the same time, we&rsquo;re working with our wide network of public interest advocates and politically engaged scholars, including you.

On the first day of the DC summit, we published Extreme Genetic Engineering and the Human Future: Reclaiming Emerging Biotechnologies for the Common Good ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s1970elJjsoC ), a 50-page report co-authored with Friends of the Earth-US.
We&rsquo;re organizing an open letter ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s1540flJjsoG ) that now has close to 200 signatories, calling for strengthened prohibitions against genetically modified humans.

In addition, we&rsquo;re working on related issues: cross-border surrogacy and egg retrieval, police DNA databases, genetic privacy, the legacy of the US eugenics movement, and more.
In 2016, we have exciting line-ups of our online conversations series Talking Biopolitics ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s191celJjsoJ ) with leading biopolitical thinkers, and of screenings in our new film series ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s1934elJjsoL ) at UC Berkeley. Our already outsized media and social media footprint keeps growing &ndash; more than 150 print, online, and broadcast outlets cited us this year &ndash; and our Twitter followship is soaring.
In short, we&rsquo;re building public and civil society awareness about the social justice, human rights, and public interest challenges of human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies.
Please join us in these efforts. A gift of any size will make a real difference. ( https://networkforgood.rsvp1.com/s15a4flJjsoP ).
Thanks so much, and very best wishes for this holiday season,
Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director

P.S. If you&rsquo;d prefer to contribute via check rather than online, you can use this form ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s1994elJjsoT ).
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