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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...

Doctor examining a patient
By Deborah Hellman, The Conversation | 04.20.2020

As cases related to the novel coronavirus continue to strain hospitals, doctors face difficult choices about rationing scarce medical resources...

By Ronnie S. Stangler, Medium | 04.19.2020

Last night, I entered intimate personal health information into a database that can be accessed by anyone. This is not...

By Gordon Macdonald, HuffPost UK | 04.19.2020

The NHS response to Covid-19 has been incredible. It has shown the strong commitment by the medical profession and society...

By Carol Morello, Washington Post | 04.16.2020

Andrea Hoffmann’s mad dash to America began shortly after 2 a.m. on March 12 in Munich, when her husband roused her...

The shadows of prisoners on a wall
By Mab Segrest, Time | 04.16.2020

Toward the end of the 19th century, the superintendent of Georgia’s State Asylum, T.O. Powell, developed a theory to explain...

By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo | 04.13.2020

While the state of New York recently overturned a long-held ban on commercial surrogacy, and news about celebrities opting to...

By Katrina N. Jirik, Bill of Health | 04.13.2020

As health care resources grow increasingly scarce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, states, hospitals, and individuals are forced to make tough...

Child's crib
By Lia Tremblay, NPR | 04.09.2020

Seeing Thomas Hunt Morgan’s experiments with fruit flies in episode one of The Gene: An Intimate History took me...