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The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies

By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post | 09.03.2025

The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

Policies

Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference

By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

Bioethics

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...

Genetic Selection

Who decides the future of humanity? SA’s genome editing guidelines spark global concern

By Vuyile Madwantsi, Independent Online | 08.22.2025

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

Policies
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Physicians face confusion and fear in post-Roe world

By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 06.28.2022

Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on Unsplash

It had been barely 80 minutes since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned ...

Assisted Reproduction
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Reproductive control of Indigenous women continues around the world, say survivors and researchers

By Gillian Rutherford, The University of Alberta | 06.27.2022

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Survivors of forced sterilization and coerced contraception from Canada, Peru and Indonesia will gather...

Other Countries
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Amid the Turmoil of Covid, Biosafety Legislation Gets Political

By Michael Schulson, Undark Magazine | 06.27.2022

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IN MARCH 2021, three members of Congress sent a long letter to the director of...

U.S. Federal
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Genetic Screening Results Just Got Harder to Handle Under New Abortion Rules

By Sara Reardon, Kaiser Health News | 06.27.2022

Photo by Testalize.me on Unsplash

Ann was 15 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when the results of her prenatal...

Genetic Selection
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With Roe v. Wade overturned, disabled people reflect on how it will impact them

By Shruti Rajkumar , NPR | 06.25.2022

Photo by Reed Naliboff on Unsplash

In 2008, around eight weeks into her second pregnancy, Robin Wilson-Beattie began experiencing hyperemesis...

Policies
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A Preview of the Dangerous Future of Abortion Bans — Texas Senate Bill 8

By Whitney Arey, Ph.D et al.,, The New England Journal of Medicine | 06.22.2022

Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

When the U.S. Supreme Court issues its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...

U.S. States
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Side Effects May Include … A Completely New Hair Color?

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 06.22.2022

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In October 2019, Jordan Janz became the first person in the world to receive an...

Human Genetic Modification
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Half in UK back genome editing to prevent severe diseases

By Ian Sample , The Guardian | 06.22.2022

More than half the UK backs the idea of rewriting the DNA of human embryos to prevent severe or life-threatening...

Assisted Reproduction