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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 Staff, Broadly [VICE] | 08.24.2015
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In 2014, tech companies like Apple and Facebook added egg freezing to their healthcare packages. The procedure has...

By Ellie Kincaid, Tech Insider | 08.24.2015
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Like many people of her generation, Miriam Zoll wanted to wait to have kids. She had seen headlines about 45-year-old...

By Tereza Hendl, The Conversation | 08.23.2015

Australian guidelines for the ethical use of IVF allow selecting a child’s sex for medical reasons. But draft guidelines...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 08.22.2015
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CLEVELAND — Opening a new front in the abortion wars, abortion opponents are pushing Ohio to make it...

By The Economist, The Economist [Cites CGS] | 08.22.2015

IN THE summer of 2005 Karen Aiach and her husband received heartbreaking news about their four-month-old daughter, Ornella: she had...

By Diana Kwon, Scientific American | 08.21.2015

Twelve years ago, members of the Havasupai Tribe entered into a legal battle with Arizona State University, over the ways...

By Matthew W. Hughey, The Huffington Post | 08.20.2015
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From 22-25 August, sociologists from around the nation and world will descend upon the Windy City of Chicago...

By Selina Lum, The Straits Times [Singapore] | 08.20.2015

The "difficult" issue of whether the mother of a baby conceived in an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) sperm mix-up can claim...