News

Developments in gene-editing technology raise new ethical questions

By [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], KCBS Radio | 11.19.2025

This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.

By Emily Glazer, Katherine Long, Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 11.08.2025

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called...

Genetic Selection

Who Gets to Procreate and Parent? A Black Feminist Critique of the Pronatalist Agenda

By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

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Does One Size Fit All?

By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

Society

DNA sweeps pose wrenching ethical questions

By Carol Goar, The Star [Toronto] | 02.17.2016
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Former Toronto police chief Bill Blair hailed DNA collection as “a revolutionary crime-fighting tool.”

With a blood...

Other Countries

For Fertility Treatment, Wounded Veterans Have To Pay The Bill

By Quil Lawrence, NPR | 02.17.2016
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Midway through Matt Keil's second deployment in Iraq, he came home and married his fiancee, Tracy, in 2007...

Assisted Reproduction

A look into the bioethics of commercialized surrogacy

By Clare Fogarty, The McGill Tribune | 02.16.2016
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On Feb. 6, the McGill Journal of Law and Health held its eighth Annual Colloquium, with this year...

Bioethics

Egg Donation and Surrogacy Scam [Press Release]

By U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | 02.16.2016

Allison Layton, who owned a California company called Miracles Egg Donation (Miracles), claimed she was in the business of helping...

Assisted Reproduction

There's No Excuse For Doctors To Treat Patients According To Race

By Amitha Kalaichandran, Huffington Post [Canada] | 02.16.2016
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This past November I had the opportunity take part in TEDMED as a TEDMED Scholar. The week consisted...

Human Rights

NC appeals court rules on eugenics cases

By Anne Blythe, News & Observer | 02.16.2016
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The N.C. Court of Appeals issued rulings Tuesday in a series of cases related to people who were...

Human Rights

The History of Eugenics in Quebec and at McGill

By Hailey MacKinnon, The McGill Tribune | 02.16.2016
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McGill University is known for its cutting-edge scientific research. Many may not know, however, that during the early...

Human Rights

Gene editing: The next frontier in America’s abortion wars

By Sarah Karlin, Politico | 02.16.2016
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Longtime combatants find themselves on the same side when it comes to manipulating the DNA of human embryos...

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