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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 Luke Timmerman, Forbes | 02.09.2015
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There’s a reason you can’t donate a kidney or bone marrow to just anybody. Each person’s immune system...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Jessica Cussins, Los Angeles Times | 02.08.2015

Britain is about to become the only country in the world to explicitly allow the inheritable genetic modification of humans...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 02.08.2015
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Older women trying for a baby could soon be offered the IVF technique of so-called “three-parent” embryos that...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 02.08.2015
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It may seem strange that an expert in cloning – the man who produced the first clones of...

By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail | 02.08.2015
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April Gore wants to be a mother. She just doesn’t know when. But once she’s ready, the 28-year-old...

By Jacqueline Nelson, The Globe and Mail | 02.08.2015
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Somewhere between calls to “break the glass ceiling” and the war cry to “have it all,” working women...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 02.07.2015
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A Nuffield Council review of the British Government’s ‘care.data’ scheme has found that the existing privacy framework needs...

By KQED, KQED Radio [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.06.2015

 

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After a parliamentary vote earlier this week, the United Kingdom is set to become...