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Women excluded from Jerusalem conference on fertility

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Summary of story from Haaretz, January 5, 2011

Two prominent Israeli doctors have withdrawn from a Jerusalem conference after it notified them that women would not be able to speak or participate at the event.

The event, on fertility and Jewish law, was organised by Pua, an organisation offering gynaecological and fertility counselling in adherence with Jewish law, or Halakah.

On Wednesday, organisers informed female gynaecological and fertility professionals that they would not be able to speak at the event or participate in any of its panels.

A Facebook campaign was launched to protest the exclusion of women which brought about the withdrawal of two of its speakers – Professor Yuval Yaron from Ichilov Hospital’s Lis Maternity Hospital and Professor Uriel Elchalal of Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem.

In a letter to organisers, Yaron said: “the assertion that women cannot be invited as lecturers in a conference on women’s medicine is both professionally absurd and represents an exclusion of women in the full sense of the word.”

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