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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

scissors cutting DNA
By Sandy Sufian and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Scientific American | 02.16.2021

Americans have celebrated the fact that the Biden administration is embracing science and returning the country to evidence-based policymaking. We...

facial recognition
By Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker | 02.15.2021

In computer science, the main outlets for peer-reviewed research are not journals but conferences, where accepted papers are presented in...

Donor egg
By Diane Tober, Salon | 02.15.2021

*Names have been changed to protect privacy.

Janine* was raised by a single mother in the San Francisco Bay Area. With...

Speeding ambulance
By James Tapper, The Guardian | 02.13.2021

People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite...

Human brain model
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.11.2021

In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of live human neurons that...

Human genome graphic
By Nature Staff, Nature | 02.10.2021

The first drafts of the human genome, published in Nature and Science 20 years ago, flung open the doors for...

Covid vaccine sticker
By Oliver C. Huang, Ms. | 02.10.2021

Since the COVID vaccine was first announced last year, the question of who should be prioritized to receive the vaccine...

Pregnant woman
By Caitlin Ashworth, The Thaiger | 02.07.2021

An alleged illegal transnational surrogacy ring, posed as a cleaning company, was busted by Thailand’s cybercrime police after surrogate mothers...