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

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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

This Scientist Helped Free the Innocent Using DNA. Now Biden Wants Him in the Cabinet.

By Eli Hager, The Marshall Project | 01.26.2021

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In November 1988, at a secretive conference center in the...

Genomics

‘Deleted’ DNA Data Just Reappeared on a Popular Database

By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 01.21.2021

Over the past few years, the online DNA database GEDmatch has become a powerful tool for solving cold cases...

Society

Surprising Surge of Egg Freezing During the Pandemic Raises Ethical Questions

By Danielle Pacia and Jacob Howard, Bioethics Forum | 01.21.2021

In the midst of the pandemic, life has been put on hold in a multitude of ways. Many women are...

Assisted Reproduction

Media Elevate Eugenicists, Sideline Disabled Voices in Discussions of Covid Rationing

By Justine Barron , FAIR | 01.20.2021

In the sticky conversations around rationing life-saving treatments and vaccines during the Covid pandemic, corporate media have elevated some experts...

Eugenics