Laurie Zoloth is Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She has been President of both the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the American Academy of Religion and was the Founding Chair of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bioethics Advisory Committee. She is the author or coeditor of nine books on bioethics, the humanities, and emerging science, including The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate (MIT Press).