News

The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies.

His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, among other reasons, gene-editing was so new...

Genetic Selection

Baby Bonuses and Motherhood Medals: Why We Shouldn’t Trust the Pronatalist Movement

By Staff, National Women's Law Center | 08.13.2025

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump administration to help encourage women to have more children.

Besides falling short of ensuring that people have what they need...

Human Genetic Modification

We Don’t Know if the Babies Born From Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Will Still Develop Mitochondrial Disease

By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

^{Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at

National Human Genome Research Institute}

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

Assisted Reproduction

Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should they?

By Brittany Luse, Liam McBain, and Neena Pathak, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.28.2025

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

Genetic Selection

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

By Melody Schreiber, The Guardian | 05.05.2025

^{"Robert F. Kennedy Jr." by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0}

Autism researchers and advocates...

Bioethics

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

By Cade Metz and Karen Weise, The New York Times | 05.05.2025

Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several...

Patents & Other IP

Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed

By Derek Beres, The Guardian | 05.04.2025

English polymath Francis Galton formulated the concept of eugenics in 1883. Inspired by animal breeding, Galton encouraged people with...

Society

USA : la politique pro nataliste de Trump et Musk

By M. Genries, A. Cohen, and L. Mareschal, Franceinfo [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.03.2025

^{"Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada"...}

U.S. Federal

Fascist Population Engineering: Yes to White Christian Births, No to Immigrants and LGBTQ Families

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucid | 05.02.2025

^{Photo of JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni from the

Office of the Vice President of the United States}

$5000 bonuses...

Bioethics

A photograph of Judith Heumann, as a panelist, ready to speak

A New Eugenics Wave: Trying to Make Disability and Disease Disappear

By Elayne Clift, Daily Kos | 05.01.2025

^{Photo of Judy Heumann by Taylordw,

CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons}

Back in the 1980s when I...

Society

Could gene therapy improve my life as an adult with sickle cell?

By Oluwatosin Adesoye, Sickle Cell Disease News | 04.30.2025

Several weeks ago, when news of the first sickle cell disease patient to be cured by gene therapy went viral...

Biotech & Pharma

How MAGA's obsession with ‘pronatalism’ is harmful to the LGBTQ+ community

By Ariel Messman-Rucker, Pride | 04.30.2025

Family values conservatives have been obsessed with heterosexual marriages and babies for decades. They have fought to curtail women’s rights...

Society