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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 Natalie Schreyer, Mother Jones | 07.28.2016

The future of baby-making is not in a bed, or in the back seat of a car. It's in a...

By Editorial, New Scientist | 07.27.2016

THERE’S a certain breed of techno-optimist who likes to talk about “the singularity” – a time when technology progresses so...

By Express News Service, The New Indian Express | 07.27.2016

KOCHI: IN a first in India, doctors used Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), a process of genetic profiling of embryos prior...

By Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal Daily News | 07.27.2016

A same-sex married couple who hoped to become parents of a third child with the help of a surrogate mother...

By Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post | 07.27.2016

This was the year the government was going to start helping injured veterans and members of the military maintain their...

By Daphne Martschenko, The Conversation | 07.26.2016

Researchers at King’s College London say they are able to predict educational achievement from DNA alone. Using a new type...

By Kaleigh Rogers, VICE Motherboard | 07.26.2016

Learning about the genetic markers stored in your DNA can be an illuminating experience, even a life-altering one. Now...

By Emily Bazar, The Washington Post | 07.26.2016

Linda Smith learned last summer that she was losing significant cartilage in her knees, a consequence of a lifetime spent...