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

$5 Million Allotted: California Stem Cell Agency Receives 19 Applications for Research Targeting Covid-19

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 04.08.2020

Nineteen scientists seeking to crush the coronavirus submitted applications this week for research grants from the California stem cell agency...

Slow Science, Fast Science

By Daniel Sarewitz, Issues in Science and Technology | 04.07.2020

Science is moving fast right now. The novel coronavirus pandemic has created the conditions for rapid knowledge generation: about the...

Forced sterilization a symptom of ‘colonial hangover’ says lawyer

By Dennis Ward, Face to Face | 04.07.2020

More than 100 Indigenous women in Canada have come forward with stories of forced or coerced sterilization and lawyer Alisa...

Other Countries

The Surrogate is in Oregon. The Parents are in China. And the Baby is in Limbo.

By Libby Dowsett, The Oregonian/OregonLive | 04.05.2020

First-time gestational surrogate Shandi Phelps realized her life was about to take a bizarre turn when President Donald Trump announced...

Policies

Europe’s COVID-19 lockdown leaves new families in limbo in Ukraine

By Orlando Crowcroft & Marta Rodriguez Martinez, Euronews | 04.04.2020

This is not the way that Briton Nadene Ghouri had planned to spend the first six weeks of motherhood.

Holed...

Other Countries

I’m disabled and need a ventilator to live. Am I expendable during this pandemic?

By Alice Wong, Vox | 04.04.2020

It is a strange time to be alive as an Asian American disabled person who uses a ventilator. The coronavirus...

Society

Final Cyberspace Dash Underway for $5.5 Billion California Stem Cell Initiative

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 04.03.2020

The campaign to save California's stem cell research program from financial extinction is making an "unprecedented," electronic sprint to gather...

Stem Cells

Americans With Disabilities Are Terrified

By Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic | 04.03.2020

Many Americans are anxious about contracting the novel coronavirus. Daniel Florio is absolutely terrified.

The 50-year-old lawyer from Maplewood, New...