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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...

State of Georgia depicted in rainbow colors
By The Associated Press, NBC News | 07.24.2019

A same-sex couple in Georgia said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the U.S. State Department is unconstitutionally refusing to...

By Jonathan Lambert, Nature | 07.24.2019

Advocates for stem-cell research in California are pushing ahead with a plan to save the struggling state-funded California Institute for...

A doctor holding a DNA test swab
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 07.21.2019

Senior doctors have called for a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly...

Red and blue DNA
By Samara Rosenfeld, Inside Digital Health [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.19.2019

It’s no secret that gene editing has sparked ethical concerns. In March, scientists and ethicists from seven countries issued ...

eggs under a microscope
By Ruthie Ackerman, The New York Times | 07.19.2019

I was beginning to realize I wanted to have a baby. My husband, I knew, never would.

From the time...

By Dan Cloer, Vision [cites CGS' Richard Hayes] | 07.16.2019

Fifteen thousand babies are born every hour, every day, around the world. About 3 percent, or 450 individuals, are twins...

US Congress building
By Andrew Joseph, STAT+ | 07.15.2019

A bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China...

book cover for "Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
By Alexandra Minna Stern, Salon | 07.14.2019

If the alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated...