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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...

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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...

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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...

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House’s Hyde Amendment Vote Advances Abortion Justice and Racial Equity

By Destiny Lopez, Truthout | 08.12.2021

Congress just took a historic step forward for racial, economic and reproductive justice 45 years in the making. Every year...

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National Academies’ Report Took Pharma-Friendly Stance After Millions in Gifts From Drugmakers

By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | 08.12.2021

To several U.S. senators, it looked wasteful, even outrageous. Every year, taxpayers pay for at least $750 million worth of...

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The Wild West of Fertility Clinics

By Madeline Verniero, The Regulatory Review | 08.10.2021

As of 2018, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has resulted in the births of approximately 8 million babies. IVF has also ...

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Remote work made life easier for many people with disabilities. They want the option to stay

By Neelam Bohra and AJ Willingham, CNN | 08.10.2021

Gabe Moses prefers to work his eight-hour shift for a call center while lying on his stomach, resting on a...

Bioethics

‘Socialized Research’ and ‘Privatized Profits’: California's Gene Therapy Research and Million Dollar Plus Treatments

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.09.2021

Only eight days after the California stem cell agency approved its most recent award for its $60 million battle against...

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Giraffes May Be as Socially Complex as Chimps and Elephants

By Cara Giaimo, The New York Times | 08.07.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 2.5 on Wikimedia Commons

Giraffes seem above it all. They float over the...

Genomics
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They, the people

By Patricia J. Williams, TLS | 08.06.2021

In 1853, Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau published a tract entitled “Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races”, in which...

Eugenics
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USDA’s actions on gene-edited approvals challenged in court

By Jacqui Fatka, Farm Progress | 08.06.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY 2.0 on Wikimedia Commons

In May 2020, the previous administration’s USDA issued its...

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