News

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...

"MC0_8230" via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by 2.0 

This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 03.24.2020

Joe Durak and Valeria Martinez Viademonte are expecting their second child on April 16. Problem is, their home is in...

By Daniel Sarewitz, Slate | 03.24.2020

For the past 30 years, I have tried to make sense of the interactions between science and politics, especially the...

By Lily Wakefield, Pink News | 03.23.2020

The coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic affect on LGBT+ parents who are expecting children via surrogacy, according to an...

Baby shoes
By Christina Caron, New York Times | 03.22.2020

After nearly two years of trying to have a baby, Karen Rzonca, 32, was hoping that this would be the...

Vertical lines of diffuse blue lights on a dark background
By Donna Dickenson, Katie Hasson & Marcy Darnovsky, Project Syndicate | 03.17.2020

The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...

Home DNA test kit
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Washington Post | 03.15.2020

When Lisa DeAngelico found out she had Stage 4 breast cancer two years ago at age 47, she says one...

By Michael Slezak and Penny Timm, ABC Australia | 03.14.2020

It’s pitch black. The Sun won’t rise for another hour or so.

The ground around Tony Biffin’s dairy farm on...

By Cecile Janssens, eLife | 03.13.2020

Interest in using polygenic scores to make predictions is skyrocketing in many areas of life. For example, researchers are exploring...