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This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

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By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 08.24.2022

In a first in its 18-year history, the California stem cell agency has begun posting on its website a list...

ivf fertility clinic
By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 08.24.2022

Earlier this month, California Representatives Adam Schiff and Judy Chu introduced the Equal Access to Reproductive Care Act, a...

an anti abortion ban protest
By David Dodge, The New York Times | 08.23.2022

During her 20-week pregnancy ultrasound last month, a woman living near the Utah-Idaho border learned she had a major rupture...

sperm surrounding an egg
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 08.23.2022

The way we make babies could be about to change. Maybe. 

An embryo forms when sperm meets egg. But what...

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By Inmaculada De Melo-Martín, The Hastings Center Report | 08.22.2022

Advances in genome editing technologies allow scientists to add, remove, or alter genetic material at particular locations in the human genome...

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By Corinne Othenin-Girard, Philosophical Investigations | 08.22.2022

Imagine a world in which parents have the option to go to a geneticist to discuss the ‘genetic fix’ choices...

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By Britt H. Young, IEEE Spectrum | 08.21.2022

Photo by Henk Mul on Unsplash

In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, members...

A Tasmanian tiger
By Editorial, The Guardian | 08.19.2022

"tasmanian tiger" by nicolas.boullosa is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

The last official sighting of a Tasmanian...