Jennifer Lahl Founder and National Director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBC). She serves on the North American editorial board for the international journal, Ethics and Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Council for Biotechnology Policy in Washington, DC.

Thoughts on the role of science, technology and medicine for the human future, and the uses which promote human flourishing and the common good. The views expressed here acknowledge my personal belief in the inviolabilty of human life and the dignity of all human beings.

the Human Future

A voice of reason crying from the wilderness

I am a huge Leon Kass fan. He is a gentle, humble, kind and wise man. Knowing the he is a man of influence and significance is good for our human future. I sleep better knowing people like Dr. Kass are in this great debate of what it means to be human. Here is his editorial from today's Washington Post.

"No decent society can afford to be callous to human suffering or indifferent to the need to seek cures. No decent society can afford to treat human life, at whatever stage of development, as a mere natural resource to be mined for the benefit of others." There must be an ethical way forward. There must be a way to proceed with great humilty and respect for all human life.

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