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Oh, No, It's a Girl! South Asians Flock to Sex-Selection Clinics in U.S.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010

For those with roots in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, sex selection is often not freely chosen.

Gopher Kids or Guinea Pigs?

Fri, 13 Aug 2010

University of Minnesota researchers attempting to investigate the genetic features of �normal and healthy� kids plan to solicit DNA samples from child-parent volunteer pairs at this month�s state fair.

A People's History of the Human Genome

Wed, 30 Jun 2010

Genewatch UK marked the 10th anniversary of the Human Genome Project announcement by publishing an extraordinary History with important current policy implications.

Conservation and Eugenics: The environmental movement's dirty secret

Orion Magazine, whose mission is "serious thinking on the deeper connection between the environment and social and political issues," has published a thoughtful essay tracing the roots of environmentalism back to a very unpleasant historical truth.

Sometimes Beautiful People Do Unattractive Things

Wed, 23 Jun 2010

Beautifulpeople.com is taking the designer gamete market to a whole new level by using its online dating service as a vehicle for people to find sperm from attractive donors so that they can presumably have beautiful children.

A Singular Kind of Eugenics

Wed, 16 Jun 2010

Modern techno-utopianism, discussed in a recent feature on Singularity University, has worryingly eugenic overtones.

China tries to sterilise 10,000 parents over one-child rule

Sat, 17 Apr 2010

Family planning authorities in Guangdong Province are cracking down hard on couples who have violated birth control policies.

The ultimate betrayal

Wed, 24 Mar 2010

Thousands of North Carolina residents were forcibly sterilized as part of the state's eugenics policy. The survivors are seeking justice before they die.

Eugenics: Remembering History and the Living Victims

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

New initiatives in North Carolina and Canada aim to confront the legacy of 20th-century eugenics.

Foundation to aid victims of N.C. eugenics campaign

Thu, 04 Mar 2010

People who were sterilized against their will under a North Carolina law now have an advocate.

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

Environmentalists are in a position to play a critically important role in determining how powerful, emerging technologies are ultimately developed, used, and regulated.

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

Wed, 24 Feb 2010

The riveting stories in a new best-seller are relevant to the biopolitical controversies we face today.

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]

Tue, 23 Feb 2010

Human genetic, reproductive and biomedical technologies are taking us into uncharted moral and political waters.

Gene testing spurs decline of some dire diseases

Fri, 19 Feb 2010

Some inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children.

Eugenics fear as British couples are offered �700 online gene test for 100 inherited diseases

Tue, 09 Feb 2010

Experts warned that a simple test to stop couples from passing on genetic diseases to their children was unnecessary and could lead to 'back door eugenics'.