Jennifer Lahl, CBC President

Should Adult Desires Trump Children’s Needs?

Louisiana State Senator Gary Smith took his cues from Hollywood in promoting his new bill legalizing commercial contract pregnancies (gestational surrogacy) in his state. Jennifer parses Senator Smith’s assertion that surrogacy is analogous to “baking bread” in an oven and reveals the underlying commodification of both women and children that is at the heart of [...]

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The Power of Human Stories

Dear Friend, Thank you for your personal interest in the Center for Bioethics and Culture. I deeply appreciate your commitment to helping make a difference in our world. Here’s a quick glimpse of how your partnership helps make a difference. Our approach to film and media is giving voice to the vulnerable. I just received [...]

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Searching for Family

By Jennifer Lahl, CBC President Several months back, a donor-conceived friend of mine challenged me to undergo DNA testing as part of my ongoing advocacy in the space of anonymous egg and sperm donation. It was a sort of ‘walk a mile in my shoes’ challenge; see what it’s like to go and search for [...]

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What Could Go Wrong?

Wanted: “Extremely Adventurous Female Human” to be Surrogate Mother for Neanderthal Baby No, this is not a tabloid headline you read while waiting to checkout at the grocery store or something you might find on Craigslist in the Help Wanted ads. This comes from a line by Harvard University’s prestigious geneticist, George Church, highlighted in [...]

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2012 Winners and Losers

Winners The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: This past November, voters resoundingly rejected Question 2, which would have legalized physician assisted suicide. It failed by a majority of 51% of the vote and was defeated largely due to broad, bipartisan support across political ideologies because people understand there is no ‘death with dignity’. As a nurse, I [...]

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This is Huxley’s Brave New World

UPDATE: This video has really struck a chord. We’ve received many notes on how it has helped people in thinking about (and communicating about) reproductive technologies. This summer I was interviewed by a film crew from Germany for a documentary on reproductive technologies. The documentary has just aired on German TV, and my segment, aptly [...]

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Reflective and Expectant

Do you remember Christmases as a kid? Some of us have cheerful memories; for some, the memories are painful. But either way, most of us have come to associate the Christmas season and the end of the year with a reflective attitude about the past year. But it’s also good to recall that Advent is [...]

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Death with Dignity: Coming to a State Near You

With the matter of legalized physician assisted suicide facing the Massachusetts voters this November (and a new law proposed in New Jersey), I thought it would be a good time to remind our readers why the CBC opposes physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. To be clear, we support people dying a natural death. Sometimes the zeal [...]

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Alana S. Newman: Shark Tank Girl

When I first met Alana, I was at Columbia University Law School screening my documentary film, Eggsploitation. I had done an earlier screening during the day at Fordham University Law School and noted at both of these screenings “they” were following me. They being the women who typically attend my screenings to give me pushback [...]

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Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Vetted

Recently, I was tagged on twitter about a blog post entitled “Pro-Life Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.” On a number of occasions, especially when I screen our documentary film Lines That Divide: The Great Stem Cell Debate, I am asked the questions this post raises. That’s when I turn to the various experts CBC [...]

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This is Huxley’s Brave New World

This video has really struck a chord. We've received a number of notes on how it has helped people in thinking about (and communicating about) reproductive technologies.

This summer CBC founder and president Jennifer Lahl was interviewed for a documentary on reproductive technologies for German TV. Jennifer's segment, aptly titled "This is Huxley's Brave New World," is available online (the interview is in English with German subtitles).

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