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A Bill to Compensate Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization in California

By Emily Galpern | 03.28.2018
Biopolitical Times

May 31 update: The California Senate passed SB1190 unanimously and it will move on to the Assembly. More news to come.

April 17 update: SB 1190 was unanimously approved by a California Senate committee, and will next be heard by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Check back for more news.

April 10 update: See a fact sheet on SB 1190, the Forced Sterilization Compensation Act, with a full list of supporting organizations.

California finally has the opportunity to right a wrong...

Eugenics

Forensic DNA and the “Golden State Killer”

By Pete Shanks | 05.02.2018
Biopolitical Times
The use of DNA for forensic purposes is long overdue for reassessment. The alleged identification of the so-called “Golden State Killer” (also known by several other nicknames) may just be sparking debates that have been needed for decades, about the law, privacy, databases, and the reliability of DNA evidence.
Genomics

Let's compensate victims of California's forced sterilization program — quickly, before they die

By The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times | 05.18.2018

Aggregated News

As appalling as it sounds today, the practice of sterilizing mentally ill women and men to prevent them from passing...

Eugenics

Reproductive gene editing imperils universal human rights

By Marcy Darnovsky, Leah Lowthorp and Katie Hasson, OpenGlobalRights | 02.15.2018

Op-Ed

What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And...

Human Rights

Biopolitical Times

Polling News

By Pete Shanks | 06.20.2018

Gallup released its annual Values and Beliefs survey on June 4th. This is the 18th year in which Gallup has...

Public Opinion

Connecting the Dots in a Flood of Genetic Testing Stories

By Katie Hasson | 06.07.2018

In late April, news broke that police used a public genealogy database to identify a suspect in the “Golden State...

Genomics

Fox Sports and 23andMe rooting for an ancestral goal at the World Cup: What can possibly go wrong?

By Charles Garzon | 06.06.2018

It’s time again for the one sporting event that has literally stopped wars. Beginning on June 14, the World Cup...

Racial Justice

News

DNA testing could reunite families at the US border — and fuel surveillance

By Russell Brandom and Rachel Becker, The Verge | 06.22.2018

Aggregated News

More than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the US border as a result of the White House’s new “zero tolerance” policy, and immigration agencies seem to have no clear plan for reuniting them. In one case...

Bioethics

Embryos Made From Genes of Three Biological Parents Fuel the Debate Over Designer Babies

By Marcy Darnovsky, People [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.21.2018

Aggregated News

A Ukrainian doctor is creating genetically modified “three-parent” babies in an effort to give infertile women a chance to bear children who share their genes.

The practice is banned in the U.S. and many other countries and, according to a...

Assisted Reproduction

Lawmakers press genetic testing companies for details on their privacy policies

By Megan Thielking, Stat News | 06.21.2018

Aggregated News

Pressure is growing on direct-to-consumer genealogy and genetic testing companies to be more transparent about their privacy policies, after the arrest of the notorious Golden State Killer using publicly available data from one of the websites.

In a letter sent...

U.S. Federal

Deleting a Species

By Rowan Jacobson, Pacific Standard | 06.20.2018

Aggregated News

In a windowless London basement, behind three sets of locked steel doors and a wall of glass, thousands of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes cling like Marvel supervillains to the sides of white mesh cubes. The room is negatively pressurized, so...

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