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

The Last Children of Down Syndrome

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 11.18.2020

^{Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash}

Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a...

Genetic Selection

Resisting the rise of facial recognition

By Antoaneta Roussi, Nature | 11.18.2020

^{Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash}

In Belgrade’s Republic Square, dome-shaped cameras hang prominently on wall fixtures, silently scanning people...

Policies

Marie Stopes UK Finally Changes Name To Cut Ties With Eugenicist

By Rachel Moss, HuffPost | 11.17.2020

^{Constructive Birth Control Poster, from the Wellcome Library via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0}

The UK’s largest abortion provider...

Abortion provider changes name over Marie Stopes eugenics link

By News, BBC | 11.17.2020

^{Dr. Marie Stopes at the time of her marriage to Mr. H.V. Roe, 1918 (cropped). From the Wellcome Library,...}

Society

California’s vote to revive controversial stem-cell institute sparks debate

By Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 11.16.2020

Voters in California have approved US$5.5 billion in funding for stem-cell and other medical research, granting a lifeline to a...

Stem Cells

The Bioeconomics of Covid-19

By Judith Levine, n+1 | 11.13.2020

^{Back of the 50 centime emergency note issued in 1916 by the Merksplas Local Board of the National Assistance and...}

Bioethics

UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees: ‘Data collection isn't apolitical’

By Katy Fallon, The Guardian | 11.11.2020

Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are...

Global Governance

Egg-freezing has risen in lockdown, but it’s not the cure-all it’s cracked up to be

By Katie Strick and Lucy Holden, Evening Standard | 11.10.2020

Alice Mann wishes she’d known the odds from the start. The marketing consultant was 36, single and heartbroken after the...

Assisted Reproduction