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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=jAMrwAGR3GA Maggie'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=jvaW6-0NJ9E Breeders: 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.be Book: Broken Bonds: Surrogate Mothers Speak Out: https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Bonds-Surrogate-Mothers-Speak/dp/1925581551 Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid Ground Live stream. Find us at Solidgroundsupport.com Twitter: @jleslieelliott @dissidentdelite @deborahknox _____________________________________________________________________ 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/radicalcenter https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter