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IVF, Surrogacy, and Medical Ethics- Who Has a "Right" to Children? Solid Ground with Jennifer Lahl


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Jennifer Lahl is the founder 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. In 2010,
she made her writing and directing debut producing the documentary film
Eggsploitation, which has been awarded Best Documentary by the
California Independent Film Festival and has sold in more than 30
countries. An updated and expanded version of Eggsploitation was
released in the fall of 2013. She is also Director, Executive Producer,
and co-writer of Anonymous Father’s Day (2011), a documentary film
exploring the stories of women and men who were created by anonymous
sperm donation. In 2014 she completed what is now a trilogy of films on
the ethics of third-party reproduction with Breeders: A Subclass of
Women?, which focuses on surrogacy. In July 2015, she released a
documentary short Maggie's Story, which follows one woman’s egg donation
journey. Lahl releaased, #BigFertility in the fall of 2018. The film,
Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender? was released in June
of 2021. Always using film as a way to communicate and educate, The
Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters, released in Fall 2022. Her
latest film, The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood is set for release in
January 2024 as is her new book, co-authored with Kallie Fell, The
Detransition Diaries (published by Ignatius Press). All of her films are
available for FREE streaming on The Center for Bioethics and Culture
Network's YouTube channel.Links: peer-reviewed research on gestational surrogacy https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol7/iss3/1/ Films on surrogacy and egg "donation" (gay men overwhelmingly use women for their eggs and another for her womb)Eggploitation
features young US women who sold their eggs and have severe health
complications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMrwAGR3GAMaggie's Story
features one woman's story of selling her eggs 10x and as a young woman
being diagnosed w stage IV breast cancer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvaW6-0NJ9EBreeders: A subclass of
women? features four surrogates and one woman born of surrogacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvaW6-0NJ9E#BigFertility features one US
woman who did two international surrogacies and one in the US who had
issues with each of them and almost died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvQP7JSydMw&feature=youtu.beBook: Broken Bonds: Surrogate Mothers Speak Out: https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Bonds-Surrogate-Mothers-Speak/dp/1925581551Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid Ground Live stream. Find us at Solidgroundsupport.comTwitter:@jleslieelliott@dissidentdelite@deborahknox
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