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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 Matthew W. Hughey & Devon R. Goss, USAPP Blog [London School of Economics and Political Science] | 09.10.2015
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With the years of racially segregated sports now long behind us, many would consider that sports coverage is...

By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.10.2015
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It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists...

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 09.10.2015
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In 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-year-old Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish...

By Staff Reporter, Want China Times | 09.10.2015
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Chinese companies in the field of genetic testing are charging extremely low prices for their services in the...

By Judith Levine, Seven Days [Vermont] | 09.09.2015
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By the time you read this, Ohio may be the second state to outlaw abortion of a fetus...

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 09.08.2015
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The European Parliament today voted to ban the cloning of all farm animals as well as the sale...

By Vivek Wadhwa, Washington Post | 09.08.2015
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In April 2015, a paper by Chinese scientists about their attempts to edit the DNA of a human...

By ABC, ABC Australia | 09.06.2015

It’s the fastest growing dimension of the multi-billion dollar fertility industry. Women in the 20s, 30s and 40s choosing to...