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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...

Blue surgical face mask
By Dipti S. Barot, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.16.2022

Photo by Kai Pilger on Unsplash

As the omicron surge wanes, and the experts read the sewage like tea leaves...

HIV particles (yellow) infecting host cell (blue)
By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times | 02.15.2022

Scanning electromicrograph of an
HIV-infected T cell. NIAID via wikimedia

A woman of mixed race appears to be the third...

Three disabled BIPOC strolling down a street
By Megan Buckles and Mia Ives-Rublee, Center for American Progress | 02.15.2022

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Studies show that people with disabilities are more likely than people without...

A "bubble baby" cured by this treatment
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 02.15.2022

Photo: CIRM

Twenty children seeking treatment for a rare affliction called the “bubble baby disease” today have some big-time, good...

Drawing of a heart
By Eric Boodman, STAT | 02.15.2022

Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator,
CC BY 2.5 >, via Wikimedia Commons

The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept...

SFPD at street demo
By Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.14.2022

Photo of SFPD by Steve Rhodes (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Update: D.A. Chesa Boudin has dismissed the case against...

Close-up of baby's torso
By Miguel Sena-Esteves, The Conversation | 02.14.2022

Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development.

Tay-Sachs is a...

Protest against sterilization
By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.11.2022

It’s been almost 20 years since a botched surgery while she was incarcerated, but Gabby Solano still mourns the bleak...