What would you say if I told you that biologists are working to make female cells turn into sperm and male cells turn into eggs ? Perhaps you’d tell me I’ve been reading too much National Enquirer? Maybe you’d wonder if I am dyslexic. Or you could flat-out think I was crazy.

Well, it’s true. And as San Francisco-based patent analyst Greg Aharonian states that he’s pursuing the patent because he’s a “troublemaker” and wants to fuel the fiery debates over same-sex couple reproduction. As if we don’t have enough to debate about!

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Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder
Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder
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.