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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th 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...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

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By Shoumita Dasgupta, STAT | 10.03.2025

President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise in autism diagnoses in recent years as...

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By Emma Belmonte, ChinaFile | 10.03.2025

On the popular Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, an account called “Georgia Notes” (@格鲁吉亚小纸条...

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By Karin Hammarberg, Alex Polyakov, Catherine Mills, and Karinne Ludlow, The Conversation | 10.03.2025

Reports of several cases of embryo and sperm mix-ups have put the Australian fertility industry in the spotlight for all...

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By Jessica Mouzo, El País | 10.03.2025

DNA is the molecule of life: this double-helix structure, present in every cell in the body and organized into fragments...

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By Matthew Ormseth and Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times | 10.02.2025

The father of some 22 children discovered by Arcadia police in May also owns a property in El Monte where...

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By Paige Cockburn, ABC News | 10.02.2025

On Thursday afternoon, NSW Health announced a temporary exemption to the donor limit would come into effect in mid to...

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By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Zoeann Murphy, The Washington Post | 10.01.2025

MEXICO CITY — When she walked into an IVF clinic in June, Alin Quintana knew it would be the last time she...

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By Daniel Hildebrand, The Humanist | 10.01.2025

When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the...