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Who Owns the Human Body?

Jennifer Lahl

In August of 2000, I was fresh out of graduate school and had just launched the Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC) when I learned that the University of...

Denying and Defying our Human Bodies

Jennifer Lahl

I like to keep my finger on the pulse of the latest developments and trends in the field of reproductive medicine and assisted reproduction. Here are a few things that...

Babies For Sale

Jennifer Lahl

The New York State Legislature has legalized commercial gestational surrogacyโ€”the contractual renting of wombs and the buying and selling of newborn babies. This was done at the insistence of...

Biotech Babies

Jennifer Lahl Christopher White

Suzanne is a forty-year-old mother of two who recentlyattended an Evangelical womenโ€™s Bible study in a suburb of Chicago. At thisparticular gathering the topic was infertility. The church had...