Author: Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder

Whenever we treat the “parts” of human life as a raw material or a research product or something we can make a fast buck with, we run the risk of treating human life as a commodity. For that matter whenever we treat...

I just hate to talk about money in my blog because I get spam emails from bogus investors who want to help me make millions. But this is (as my kids say) too ‘choice’ to go unnoticed. In today’s Wall Street...

In what must have been the most difficult decision a physician has to make, doctors in the New Orleans area gave critically ill patients lethal injections of morphine rather than leave them behind alive during the...

Total face transplants will soon begin in Cleveland. Taken from Cadavers and transplanted onto people with serious facial disfiguration, the ethical questions remain unanswered. In a beauty obsessed culture, just how ugly is...

To be able to use your own stem cells to cure your own disease! Now that’s what I’m talking about. No ethical dilemmas. No making nascent life to destroy it. No abusing somebody else’s body to help me. No...