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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...

Rufus von KleinSmid
By Teresa Watanabe and Tomás Mier, Los Angeles Times | 06.12.2020

With its soaring arches, international flags and globe-topped tower, the Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs is one...

By Philip Ball, New Statesman | 06.10.2020

In February this year, the Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky was forced to resign when his incendiary comments on race...

Two scientists in a lab
By Bethany Brookshire, Science News | 06.09.2020

Biomedical science has historically been a male-dominated world — not just for the scientists, but also for their research subjects...

By Nina de Groot, Journal of Medical Ethics blog | 06.09.2020

A couple of years ago, during my studies, I assisted with a surgical removal of a benign uterine tumor at...

By Rori Rohlfs, Genes to Genomes | 06.08.2020

I was a fourth-year graduate student when I found myself asking a librarian for the archives of the journal The...

By Jay Peters, The Verge | 06.08.2020

IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter...

By Annah Fromberg, ABC [Australia] | 06.06.2020

Lottie Frohmader, 17, has always known she was conceived with sperm from a donor.

"I don't think there was a...

Police in Phoenix, ready for protestors
By Osagie Obasogie, The Washington Post | 06.05.2020

Photo by AJ Colores on Unsplash

Pandemics are often thought to be unforeseeable acts of God that emerge suddenly to...