News

Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

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...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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...

Civil Society

Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

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

Why it matters: Confusing...

Policies

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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

U.S. States

Heritable Human Genome Editing? It May Never Be Safe

By Katie Hasson, Impact Ethics | 12.04.2020

The “CRISPR babies” announced in headlines around the world recently turned two years old, and we still know nothing about...

Human Genetic Modification

New York Lawmakers Want Limits on Collection of Kids’ DNA

By Rachel Rippetoe, The Imprint [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.03.2020

In New York City, a middle-schooler pulled over by police could end up in a largely secretive DNA database simply...

Policies

The New Coronavirus Vaccine Is Changing The Future Of Medicine

By Caroline Seydel , Forbes | 12.02.2020

While the vaccines for Covid-19 seem to have been created in record time, the technology making them possible has been...

Patents & Other IP

U.S. mishandling of COVID echoes the 20th century eugenics movement

By Knute Berger, Crosscut | 12.01.2020

Over the past nine months, I have written about some of the parallels between the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and today’s...

U.S. Federal

“Three-Parent IVF” Might Open the Door to Human Genome Editing

By Diana Bowman, Karinne Ludlow, Walter Johnson, Slate | 12.01.2020

On Oct. 19, a team of researchers from Greece and Spain made a remarkable announcement: They had started six pregnancies...

Assisted Reproduction

Continuing issues and debate concerning transnational commercial surrogacy during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

By Yuri Hibino, Sonia Allan, and Damian Adams, BioNews | 11.30.2020

The regulation of surrogacy varies around the world. Most countries that have laws, prohibit all forms of surrogacy, while several...

Assisted Reproduction

Why we should use mild stimulation in egg donation

By Guido Pennings, BioNews | 11.30.2020

There are two strong ethical reasons to avoid harm to egg donors: a duty to minimise harm and the proportionality...

Assisted Reproduction

Court rules Japan's eugenics law unconstitutional but rejects damages claim

By Staff, Japan Times | 11.30.2020

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OSAKA – Osaka District Court ruled Monday that the now-defunct eugenics protection law, under which...

Society