Big breakthrough on created eggs out of ovarian stem cells in mice. If this translates to human applications, it could ease the egg donation worries, help infertile women but create new problems such as make mass creation of human embryos possible, open the floodgates of SCNT – cloning research, and also create more post-menopausal mothers. We shall watch and wait and see how and if this breakthrough translastes for women. Read what Wesley Smith has to say about this here on his blog.
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- Jennifer Lahl, MA, BSN, RN, is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. Lahl couples her 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursing manager with a deep passion to speak for those who have no voice. Lahl’s writings have appeared in various publications including Cambridge University Press, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, and the American Journal of Bioethics. As a field expert, she is routinely interviewed on radio and television including ABC, CBS, PBS, and NPR. She is also called upon to speak alongside lawmakers and members of the scientific community, even being invited to speak to members of the European Parliament in Brussels to address issues of egg trafficking; she has three times addressed the United Nations during the Commission on the Status of Women on egg and womb trafficking.
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