the radical center

The Fragility of Human Fertility: Medicine has Lost its Way, with Jennifer Lahl


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Jennifer Lahl is 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.The paper Jennifer co-authored on Fertility Preservation: https://cbc-network.org/2025/05/fertility-preservation/_____________________________________________________________________If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenterhttps://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter


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