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Research and Reports in Gynecology and Obstetrics | Volume 3
November 14-15, 2019 | Singapore
Obstetrics and Gynecology
4th International Conference on
NaPro Technology is a dynamic, universal women’s
health science developed by Dr Thomas W Hilgers
and his colleagues at the Pope Paul VI Institute. Evolving
over forty years of clinical research, Natural Procreative
TECHNOLOGY (NPT or NaPro for short) applies a harmonized
and prospective system of cyclic charting whose biofeedback
is critical in helping women understand their health and
fertility. One abiding hallmark distinguishes NPT’s 45-year
history: A woman’s healthcare goals—the regulation of
fertility or the identification and treatment of reproductive
abnormalities—are realized in cooperation with her natural
procreative cycle. Here I bring the defining concepts and
accomplishments of NPT into dialogue with those of the
Women’s Health Movement (WHM), a major U.S. healthcare
initiative that, since the 1960s, has continued to gain
momentum in American mainstream medicine. Speaking for
the former will be a representative group of female patients
who will recount their experiences in taped soundbites taken
from their personal testimony included in the book Women
Healed. Personifying the latter are the initial architects and
contemporary leaders of the WHM. What you are about to
discover is how a comparative conversation between these
two contemporary healthcare phenomena elegantly sets the
power of NPT in bold relief. First, NaPro embodies all that
is worthy in the WHM. Second, NaPro eclipses the best of
what the WHM has to offer. And, third, NaPro excludes any
Women’s Health Movement proposal/practices that fail to
realize health in either female patients or the culture.
Speaker Biography
Sister ReneeMirkes is a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity,
Manitowoc, WI. She serves as director of the Center for NaProEthics [the
ethics division of the Saint Paul VI Institute, Omaha, NE] and was editor
of its ethics publication, The NaProEthics Forum, from 1996 to 2002. In
her current position, she deals with procreative and birth ethics through
consultations, publications, and public speaking. To these commitments she
brings experience in clinical ethics as well as broad experience in bioethics as
a research fellow from1987-1990 with the National Catholic Bioethics Center
(formerly the Pope John Center: Houston, TX). She was appointed to the
Nebraska Bioethics Advisory Commission by University of Nebraska President
L. Dennis Smith in 2000. She is a founding member and serves on the board
of Nebraska Coalition for Ethical Research. She has also been appointed
chair of the Legislative Committee of the American Academy of Fertility Care
Professionals and spearheads its website focus on protecting healthcare
rights of conscience in reproductive medicine. She has published articles in
The Journal of Philosophy and Medicine; Ethics & Medics; New Black
friars; The Thomist; Linacre Quarterly; The American Catholic Philosophical
Quarterly; Catholic Answer; Our Sunday Visitor; The NaProEthics Forum;
National Catholic Bioethics Center Quarterly; Ethics and Medicine, and The
Catholic Response.
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Sr Renee Mirkes
Saint Paul VI Institute, USA
NaProTechnology: Healthcare women really need
Sr Renee Mirkes, Res Rep Gynaecol Obstet, Volume:3
DOI: 10.35841/2591-7366-C3-007