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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...

By Matt Tracy, Gay City News | 04.02.2020

A protracted battle over the future of compensated gestational surrogacy in New York was resolved on April 2 when state...

By Katie Thomas, New York Times | 04.02.2020

An experimental stem cell therapy derived from human placentas will begin early testing in patients with the coronavirus, a New...

Mother and baby
By David Dodge, New York Times | 04.01.2020

Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has upended life for those who are or hope to become...

By Andrew Pulrang, Forbes | 03.30.2020

A long-time, low-grade worry for people with disabilities has become a red alert in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic...

Image of DNA being edited
By Eric B. Kmiec and Jonathan Marron, Scientific American | 03.28.2020

As headline-catching new technologies emerge—like tools to “edit” our DNA—researchers, doctors, patients and the general public are excited about the...

A doctor with a pipette in hand
By Amy Silverman, Arizona Daily Star | 03.27.2020

Advocates for people with intellectual disabilities are concerned that those with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism and other such conditions...

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By Anon, Gulf Times [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.27.2020

The question of where the line should be drawn in human gene editing, and if it should be allowed to...

By Sirin Kale, The Guardian | 03.26.2020

James Washington, a 37-year-old lawyer originally from Norfolk, UK, was on the US Department of State website last Thursday trying...