Why Egg-Freezing Parties are Gaining Popularity for Women

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By Emma McDonald Kennedy | 09.25.2025

Biopolitical Times

In the leadup to the 2024 election, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to make IVF more accessible. He made the commitment central to his campaign, even referring to himself as the “father of IVF.” In his first month in office, Trump issued an executive order promising to expand IVF access. The order set a 90-day deadline for policy recommendations for “lowering costs and reducing barriers to IVF,” although it didn’t make any substantive reproductive healthcare policy changes.

The response to the...

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Eugenics, from Victorian to Postmodern

By Pete Shanks | 09.24.2025

Biopolitical Times

^{Sir Francis Galton, 1890s, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)

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As has been discussed in recent issues of Biopolitical Times (1, 2), there are, increasingly, companies that claim to be selling parents better babies by selecting the “best” embryos. These services don’t come cheap – think $50,000, or even more, for embryo testing, plus perhaps as much again for IVF and concomitant services. To most of us, that is extremely expensive...

Policies

Meet the 25-year-old founder bringing designer babies to a clinic near you

By Margaux MacColl, The San Francisco Standard | 09.17.2025

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Designer babies are coming soon to an IVF clinic near you.

Nucleus Genomics, founded by Kian Sadeghi in 2020, when he was just 20, got its start analyzing genomes to weigh a person’s risk of everything from cancer to ADHD...

Genetic Selection

Gestript van zorgen, gêne en pijn

By Marianne Lamers, NEMO Kennislink [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.23.2025

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Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een zwangerschap, maar dan zonder zwangere vrouw, gestript van zorgen, gêne en pijn. De zwangerschapsmodellen en oefenbekkens, te zien in de...

Human Genetic Modification

Why Egg-Freezing Parties are Gaining Popularity for Women

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