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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 Mark Lawrence Schrad, New York Times | 09.04.2015
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Villanova, Pa. — It was the most heart-wrenching moment of our lives, and all I could do was...

By Dawn Field, Oxford University Press Blog | 09.03.2015
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DNA testing and genomics is now so prevalent there are national genotyping platforms. Iceland became the first country...

By Claire Lee, The Korea Herald | 09.02.2015

South Korea’s Health Ministry is revising its guidelines for in vitro fertilization, discouraging medical professionals from transferring more than three...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 09.02.2015
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Britain may need to change its IVF laws to allow the genetic modification of human embryos so that...

By Chris Arsenault, Reuters | 09.01.2015

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coercive sterilization of indigenous women in Canadian health centers during the 1970s was more...

By Lauren Wilson, News.com.au | 09.01.2015
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The future of dozens of families has been thrown into limbo after Nepal followed India and Thailand and...

By Editorial, Nature | 09.01.2015
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When Stephen Damiani’s one-year-old son Massimo suddenly lost his ability to crawl and developed other problems in 2009...

By Arit Udoh, BioNews | 09.01.2015
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Access to IVF may serve as 'fertility insurance' for women, making them more inclined to delay motherhood and...