News

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

Equity and access need to be at the forefront of innovation in human genome editing

By Jantina de Vries and Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 07.12.2021

In July 2021, after more than two years of study and consultation, the World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Committee on...

Policies

‘The Man Who Hated Women’ Is Mostly About the Women He Hated

By Jennifer Szalai, New York Times | 07.12.2021

“The Man Who Hated Women,” the arresting title of Amy Sohn’s new book, would have been more fitting if the...

Arts & Culture

Should we edit human embryos' genomes, and if so then how?

By Dieter Egli, BioNews [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.12.2021

I recently received a thoughtful letter from a college student I do not know – I'll call her Claudia* –...

Human Genetic Modification

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Receive Environmental Award For Their Two-Children Limit

By Evita Duffy, The Federalist | 07.12.2021

^{Photo by Mark Jones on Flickr}

For vowing to only have two children max, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have...

Public Opinion

A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science

By Laura Hercher, Scientific American | 07.12.2021

For better or worse, genetic testing of embryos offers a potential gateway into a new era of human control over...

Assisted Reproduction

World Health Organization advisers urge global effort to regulate genome editing

By Megan Molteni, STAT [cites CGS] | 07.12.2021

On Monday, a World Health Organization advisory committee called on the world’s largest public health authority to stand by the...

Policies

Israel’s high court opens the way for same-sex couples to have children via surrogacy

By Claire Parker, Washington Post | 07.11.2021

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A decision by Israel’s supreme court Sunday paved the way for same-sex couples to...

Policies

What does the Chinese military want with your unborn baby’s genetic data?

By Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian | 07.10.2021

Your unborn baby is already being monetized

Could data harvested from millions of pregnant women pave the way for genetically...

Society