Posted by Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder | Sep 10, 2005
Last November California voters passed proposition 71, which allows for the sale of $3 billion dollars in bonds ($6 billion with interest) for embryonic and embryo cloning research. Because of several legal challenges (mainly...
Read MorePosted by Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder | Sep 8, 2005
The UK has won permission to create an embryo with the genetic material from two mothers. You say, and why would they want to do this? It is to do research which seeks to prevent mothers from passing on genetic diseases to their...
Read MorePosted by Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder | Sep 8, 2005
“The President intends to appoint Edmund D. Pellegrino, of New York, to be a Member of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Upon appointment, the President intends to designate him Chairperson.” I have had the...
Read MorePosted by Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder | Sep 5, 2005
I’ve taken the advice of a colleague and have ramped up my letter to the editor writing. Here is one I submitted last week which didn’t get printed in the St. Louis Dispatch. Dear Editor, Being a Californian who...
Read MorePosted by Jennifer Lahl, CBC Founder | Aug 30, 2005
“In scores of editorials and news stories about using “spare” in-vitro fertilization embryos for stem cell research, writers continue to talk about “the Bush ban on stem-cell research.” It’s...
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