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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 Tamara Kayali Browne, The Ethics Centre | 09.16.2015

Using sex selection to prevent medical complications associated with a particular sex is already permitted. Given this, why might parents...

By Ruth Graham, The Atlantic | 09.15.2015

It was a typical tabloid story with a highly atypical ending. In 2012, the actress Sofia Vergara became engaged to...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 09.14.2015

An expert advisory panel is urging Ontario to exclude the severely obese and anyone over 42 from its long-delayed plan...

By Kate Hilpern, The Independent | 09.13.2015
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Imagine discovering that your birth certificate is a lie and that your true biological father was a sperm...

By Ruth McKee, The Guardian [UK] | 09.12.2015

Couples who used sperm donors to conceive have had their parental status called into question after “widespread incompetence” in the...

By Carolyn Johnson, Washington Post | 09.11.2015
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This summer, a panel of genetics experts did something surprising: they put out a list of genetic tests...

By Steph Yin, Popular Science | 09.10.2015
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Almost six months ago exactly, a group of scientists published an editorial in Nature entitled “Don’t edit the...

By Associated Press, New York Post | 09.10.2015
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SORKHI, India — When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional...