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  • 26 - What should be the RCOG's relationship with older women?

  • from SECTION 7 - REPRODUCTIVE AGEING AND THE RCOG: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE
  • Edited by Susan Bewley, William Ledger, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Dimitrios Nikolaou
  • Book:
    Reproductive Ageing
    Published online:
    05 February 2014
    Print publication:
    01 June 2009, pp 277-286

  • Summary

    Reproductive rights remain one of the most important issues for different kinds and different phases of women's movements, but they do not exhaust the ethical concerns of moral philosophers concerned about women's position, any more than they do the range of concerns proper to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). The RCOG should lobby for a lower breast cancer screening age and for genetic testing enabling a more targeted approach, while opposing the growing commercialisation of genetic testing, and oppose genetic patents that particularly affect women, for example patents on the BRCA1, BRCA2 and HER2 genes. The RCOG should back a safe sex campaign and more funding for sexual health clinics aimed at women over reproductive age. It is neither patronising nor paternalistic for the RCOG to use its specialist knowledge, legitimacy and clout to prevent the 'lady from vanishing'.