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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...

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...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

A gene therapy cartoon
By Laura Ungar, Associated Press | 04.26.2025

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering...

Simone and Malcolm Collins with children
By Lisa Hagen, NPR | 04.25.2025

The Collins Family, by TeggorMindFish, CC 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“Humanity is dying,” billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News anchor...

eugenics graphic
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post | 04.24.2025

My wife and I decided to have children for an entirely prosaic reason: We wanted to start a family. I’m...

A symbol of autism
By David Badash , AlterNet | 04.24.2025

The Trump administration reportedly has plans to scrape your private medical data from sources like your doctor, your pharmacy, your...

Autism awareness ribbon
By Jessica Grose, The New York Times | 04.23.2025

"Autism Awareness Ribbon" via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held...

DNA strands
By Mary Annette Pember, ICT News [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 04.18.2025

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo.

In...

Natal conference
By Daniel Colligan, Jacobin | 04.18.2025

From the Natalism website

Last month’s gathering of pronatalists in Austin, Texas, revealed a right-wing milieu riven by internal contradictions...

a photo of RFK Jr.
By Staff, DREDF | 04.17.2025

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr." by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0

U.S. Department of Health...