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Planning to Profit from Designer Babies. Now.

By Pete Shanks | 05.25.2021
Biopolitical Times

Two prominent groups of scientists, and two major American universities, are trying to patent methods for editing human embryos, with reproductive use clearly intended. Really. Right now.

Heritable genome editing – that is, altering the genes and traits of future children and generations – is prohibited in 70 countries and wildly controversial everywhere. But these people and institutions are laying the groundwork to capitalize on a future they apparently hope to make happen. This summary of what we currently know...

Assisted Reproduction

Change may allow scientists to grow human embryos longer

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.26.2021

Aggregated News

New guidelines released Wednesday remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human embryos longer under limited conditions.

The “14-day rule,” an international ethical standard that limits laboratory studies of human embryos, has...

Human Genetic Modification

Dropping Limits, Pushing Envelopes: Stem cell research organization wants fewer rules

By Marcy Darnovsky and Katie Hasson | 05.28.2021
Biopolitical Times
An organization of scientists is recommending that limitations on several experimental and controversial research procedures – including heritable genome editing, artificial gametes, and growing human embryos in the lab – be loosened or rolled back.
Human Genetic Modification

Ethics of Surrogacy During COVID-19 Pandemic

By Cathy Sakimura, Emily Galpern, Men Having Babies | 05.12.2021

CGS-authored

The COVID pandemic has placed new hurdles to having a child through surrogacy, complicating international surrogacy in particular by restricting...

Bioethics

Biopolitical Times

WHO Asserts Leadership on Human Genome Editing

By Pete Shanks | 07.21.2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) on July 12 issued the results of what it describes as the “first broad, global...

Human Genetic Modification

Victory for Reproductive Justice in California: New Budget Includes Reparations for Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization

By Emily Galpern | 07.13.2021

Photo from Belly of the Beast, used by permission

Yesterday, California became the third state in the nation to...

U.S. States

Britney Spears is Yet Another Victim of America's Eugenics Movement

By Connor McAlister | 07.08.2021

image © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Britney Spears’ treatment under her conservatorship has been a very popular topic...

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News

California Approves Reparations for Survivors of Forced Sterilization

By Mina Kim, KQED Forum | 07.21.2021

In the first half of the 20th century, California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people in state hospitals and other institutions, under a 1909 eugenics law that remained on the books for seven decades. The victims, deemed by the state...

Eugenics

Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ article in NYT is propaganda, not journalism

By Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know | 07.21.2021

Next week in Rome, world leaders will gather to discuss how to fix the food system amid one of the worst hunger crises in recent times. According to a new United Nations report on hunger, more than 2.37 billion...

Genomics

Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’

By Erin McCormick, The Guardian | 07.19.2021

It wasn’t until years after Kelli Dillon went into surgery while incarcerated in the California state prison system that she realized her reproductive capacity had been stripped away without her knowledge.

In 2001, at the age of 24, she became...

Eugenics

Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is ‘Morally Wrong’

By Mary Papenfuss, Huffpost | 07.16.2021

In a new political low in Texas, the Republican-dominated state Senate has passed a bill to eliminate a requirement that public schools teach that the Ku Klux Klan and its white supremacist campaign of terror are “morally wrong.”...

U.S. States

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