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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 Catherine Bennett, The Guardian | 02.27.2016
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Along with thousands of babies, one of the undoubted benefits of assisted reproductive technology, or ART, has been...

By All Things Considered, NPR, All Things Considered, NPR | 02.26.2016

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UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Dr. Wieck, you referred to novel National Socialist measure introduced...

By Sarah Zhang, Wired | 02.26.2016
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You could say that Illumina is to DNA sequencing is what Google is to Internet search, but that...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.26.2016
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Marina Stajic worked for nearly three decades as director of the forensic toxicology lab at the medical examiner’s...

By Merrit Kennedy, NPR | 02.26.2016
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The Cleveland Clinic says it has performed the first uterus transplant in the United States.

This opens up...

By Katherine Drabiak, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 02.26.2016
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Editor’s note: This essay responds to an invitation (issued here and here) to submit commentaries on the...

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 02.26.2016
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Genetic information company 23andMe Inc.'s "spit kits" will be available at Walgreens stores, a company leader said Friday...

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 02.25.2016

The global trade in babies born through commercial surrogacy is slowly being shut down. India, Nepal, Thailand, and Mexico have...