Tackling Toxics

Reforming Chemical Policy and Improving Reproductive Health

April 27, 2010, 10:00am – 11:30am

About This Event

For years, reproductive health has been on the decline while chemical production has increased by a third. Mounting evidence links exposure to many commonly used chemicals with a host of reproductive health problems including birth defects, early puberty, reproductive cancers, and infertility. Fortunately, Congress has introduced long-awaited chemical policy reform legislation.

Please join Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) and a panel of distinguished speakers to learn why chemical policy reform is a reproductive health issue, why we need reform now, and what you can do about it.

Introduction by:

Jessica Arons, Director of the Women's Health and Rights Program, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Keynote speaker:

Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO)

Featured panelists:

Dana Ginn Paredes, Organizing Director, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Kirtly Parker Jones, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Educational Affairs, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah Medical Center
Daryl Ditz, Senior Policy Advisor, Chemical Program, Center for International Environmental Law; Representative, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Campaign.

Moderated by:

Reece Rushing, Director of Government Reform, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Location

Center for American Progress Action Fund
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005