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Press Release: New Research Exploits Women and Commodifies Human Life

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN RAMON, Calif. (May 15, 2013) – The Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC) strongly decries the practice of deriving human embryonic stem cells through cloning because it exploits women for their eggs, it commodifies human life, and it is unnecessary. In the June 6, 2013, issue of the scientific journal Cell, [...]

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The Fallacy of Intelligence and Genetic Determinism

By Kathleen Sloan, Consultant to the CBC Once again, the mainstream media has jumped on the bandwagon of the latest attempt to link intelligence with genetics, hailing the “wunderkind” behind it. The Wall Street Journal of February 16, 2013, grabbed attention with the headline “A Genetic Code for Genius?” Any serious geneticist would easily dismiss [...]

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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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Report from the Road

At the end of February, I had the pleasure of joining Jennifer at Yale Law School, Columbia University, and Hunter College, as the CBC hosted screenings of Eggsploitation in Connecticut and New York City. At each location, college and graduate students had the opportunity to see the films and join in the post-film discussions. Over [...]

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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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The Tenth Annual Paul Ramsey Award Dinner

Sold Out The Board of Directors of THE CENTER FOR BIOETHICS AND CULTURE NETWORK cordially invites you to The Tenth Annual Paul Ramsey Award Dinner honoring David Solomon2013 Paul Ramsey Award Recipient presented by Gilbert Meilaender with keynote address ‘Cheer Up, for the Worst Is Yet to Come’ by Jonah Goldberg Editor-at-Large, National Review Online [...]

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Introduction and Orientation

In the wake of last week’s naming of 2012’s winners and losers in the arena of bioethics, we thought it might be helpful to bring our three films to your attention. The films provide an introduction and orientation to crucial issues in bioethics and how the CBC addresses them. These films have been shown around [...]

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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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When Greed Trumps Public Health

By Kathleen Sloan, Consultant to the CBC Myriad Genetics, producer of the world’s biggest-selling gene test for breast and ovarian cancers, has become synonymous with corporate greed. In an egregious breach of bioethics, the company refuses to share groundbreaking knowledge that could benefit cancer patients. Myriad Genetics is deliberately withholding data that could help other [...]

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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).

This is why we do what we do. It's just one example of the worldwide impact you are having through your support of the CBC.
Eggsploitation is Now an E-Book

We've made the important message of our award-winning film available in another medium. We have combined the transcript of the film with several other related resources into a new e-book, now available at Amazon for reading on all of Amazon's Kindle devices and apps.
Check out the book, post a review on Amazon, let us know what you think.