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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...

Public opinion graphic
By Christopher D. Wirz, Environmental Communication | 09.29.2020

Gene editing is an inherently wicked problem

Societal debates about the applications of novel gene editing techniques like CRISPR in...

Woman behind bars
By Alan Judd, AJC | 09.26.2020

Women detained in a South Georgia immigration jail told a congressional delegation Saturday they had been forced to undergo invasive...

View behind bars
By Steven Moore, The Washington Post | 09.25.2020

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General received a formal complaint alleging that unnecessary hysterectomies were being performed...

Native american woman
By Lizzie Wade, Science | 09.24.2020

Abigail Echo-Hawk can’t even count how many times she’s been called a troublemaker. It’s happened at conferences, workshops, and even...

Sad woman
By Adolfo Flores, Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News | 09.24.2020

Amanda thought she was going to the doctor for a simple procedure to drain an ovarian cyst, but when she...

The Golden Gate Bridge
By Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.24.2020

Like MySpace, the Martha Stewart prosecution and American democratic norms, spending gobs of state money on stem cell research might...

Sterilization states
By Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee, Zora | 09.23.2020

Charmaine Fuller Cooper was outraged — but not surprised — when she heard recent allegations that a Georgia detention center...

Troubled black woman
By Thelma Annan, Popsugar | 09.23.2020

Last week, Dawn Wooten became the latest whistleblower regarding the treatment of migrants inside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...