Les principales firmes engagées dans l'avortement au niveau mondial s'étaient donné rendez-vous dans le Queensland les 12-15/11/1999 pour une conférence sur l'avortement.
La conférence était accueillie par la Fédération des Fournisseurs d'avortement d'Australie (Abortion Providers Federation of Australasia) la Société Internationale des Médecins-avorteurs (International Society of Abortion Doctors) et le Planning Familial Australien (Planned Parenthood of Australia).
Elle était sponsorisée par les firmes commerciales et les organisations suivantes :
Population Council, MedGyn Products, Schering, Wyeth Ayerst, Organon Divison Pharmaco, Queensland Medical Laboratories.
(in Pro-Life E-News, 1999.11.17)
MMargaret Reynolds (Human Rights International Advisory Committee, Department of Government, University of QLD, Australia)
Dr Therese Foran, (Family Planning Association, NSW, Australia)
Stanley Henshaw PhD (The Guttmacher Institute, New York, USA)
Natasha Cica PhD
Joyce Arthur (Pro-Choice Action Network, Vancouver, Canada)
Helen de Pinho(Women's Health Research Unit, University of Capetown,South Africa)
Population Council (New York, USA)
Dr Rasvan Socolov (Iasi, Romania)
Dr Jiri Sracek (Family Planning Association, Prague, Czech Republic)
Manana Blaje (Executive Director Family Planning Association Moldova)
Dr Joeri van den Bergh, (Castricum, the Netherlands)
Julie Mundy (Regional Representative,Marie Stopes, Australia)
Dr Zarfield Tafal (Executive Director, Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Dr Moshina Bilgrami (Program Director, Marie Stopes, Pakistan)
Mercy Fabros (International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group, Phillipines)
Dr Yagya B Karki (Director General, Family Planning Association, Nepal)
Miss Bedy Budory (Director, Mauritius Family Planning Association)
Guobjorg Edda Hermannsdottir (Landspitalinn, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Iceland)
Dr Antonio Amado Vas (Executive Director, Family Planning Association, San Tome, South America)
Choi Semjidmaa (Executive Director, Family Planning Mongolia)
Vicki Saporta (Executive Director, NAF National Abortion Federation, USA)
Helen Axby (Marie Stopes International, UK)
Dr Christine Forster (Chairperson, Abortion Supervisory Committee, Auckland, New Zealand)
Dr Eric Schaff (Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Pediatrics and Ob/Gyn, University of Rochester, USA)
Dr El-Rafaey (Senior Lecturer Honorary Consultant, Imperial College, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital London, UK)
Dr Warren Hern (Boulder Abortion Clinic, Colorado, USA)
Dr George Tiller (Women's Health Care, USA)
Barbara Buttfield PhD(Pregnancy Advisory Centre, SA, Australia)
Children by Choice Association(Lutwyche, Brisbane, Australia)
Vicki Saporta (Executive Director, National Abortion Federation, USA)
Unna Liddy (Brisbane, Australia)
Dianne Jones (President APFA,Abortion Providers Federation of Australasia, Advisory Centre, SA, Australia)
Cheryl Teng (Pregnancy Advisory Service, Royal Women's Hospital, VIC, Australia)
Marilyn Buckham (Buffalo GYN Womenservices, Buffalo, USA)
Dr Bernie Smith (Milwaukee Women's Medical Services, Milwaukee, USA)
Dr Suzanne Poppema (Aurora Medical Services, Seattle, USA)
Dr Maureen Paul (President of NAF, National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood/Preterm Health Services)
Glenna Halverson-Boyd PhD (Fairmont Attitudes Centre, Albuquerque, USA)
Caroline Screen (Epsom Day Unit, National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand)
Rebecca Albury (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia)
Lindsay Beaton & Dianne Proctor (Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, ACT, Australia)
Karin Butler (Pregnancy Advisory Service, Royal Women's Hospital, VIC, Australia)
Betsy Aubrey (Family Planning Associates Medical Group, Chicago, USA)
Dr Dennis Chambers (Pregnancy Advisory Centre, SA, Australia)
Dr Don Cave (Director of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Royal Women's Hospital, QLD, Australia)
Dr Curtis Boyd (Medical Director, Fairmont Centre, Albuquerque, USA)
Dr Tersia Cruywagen(Reproductive Choices, South Africa)
Bonney Travers (Director of Social Work, King Edward MemorialWA, Australia)
Susan Kelly (Planned Parenthood of Australia, QLD. Australia)
Cait Calcutt, (Association for the Legal Right to Abortion, Abortion Rights Network of Australia)
Sandra McKenzie and Bev Hamming (Family Planning, ACT, Australia)
Lucinda Finley Esq (Professor of Law, University of Buffalo, New-York, USA)
Glenna Halverson-Boyd Phd(Fairmont Centre, Albuquerque, USA)
Marilyn Buckham (Buffalo GYN Womenservices, Buffalo, NY, USA)
Margaret Kirkby, (WAAC, NSW Australia)
Dr Steve Lichtenberg (Family Planning Associates Medical Group, Chicago, USA)
Dr Maureen Paul (President of NAF, National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood/Preterm, USA)
Annie Murgin (Park View Clinic, Wellington Hospital,Wellington, New Zealand)
Glenna Halversen-Boyd, PhD (Fairmont Centre, Albuquerque, USA)
Alexandrina Marcelo (RRRG, Manilla, Phillipines)
Dr Helen de Pinho (Women's Health - Lessons Learnt in South Africa Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Dr Di Palmer (Royal Women's Hospital, VIC. Australia.)
Dr Richard Grossman (Clinical AssistantProfessor, University Of Colorado, USA)
Kendra Sundquist (Family Planning Association, NSW)
Esme van Zuydam (Reproductive Choices,South Africa)
Janette Forbes (Planned Parenthood of Australia, QLD, Australia)
Beryl Holmes (Qld, Australia)
Quality Hugh Carter (Barrister, lecturer in Law, Assurance QUT,QLD, Australia)