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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 Danielle Preiss & Pragati Shahi, The Atlantic | 05.31.2016

For the Australian couple Stephen and Michael, having kids involved people from five different countries. Australian law forbids anyone from...

By Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today | 05.29.2016

When doctors try to figure out whether a patient might become addicted to opioid painkillers, they rely on clinical risk...

By Louise Watt, US News & World Report | 05.29.2016

BEIJING (AP) — China's decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand...

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By Lydia Willgress, The Telegraph [UK] | 05.27.2016
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A British scientist will be able to genetically modify human embryos after being given the go ahead from...

By Tina Vasquez, Rewire | 05.27.2016
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The same white supremacy that declared Black men and women to be hypersexual also subjected troubled or abused...

By Jody Allard, Vice | 05.27.2016

The first time a doctor told me he had no idea what was wrong with me, I was six or...

By Martin Enserink, Science Magazine | 05.27.2016

In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 05.27.2016

The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys.

The first brought hundreds of thousands of...