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Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
On September 5, the Federal Court of Australia (the appeals court) upheld a claim on isolated DNA from the BRCA1...
IN inner-city Sydney, a man in his 50s answers an unexpected knock at the front door. It’s the...
After five years the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has updated its guidelines for gamete donation in the...
Cynthia Chandler, co-founder of the Oakland, California-based prisoner rights group Justice Now, is not usually short on words...
Here is a remarkable fact about identical twins: they have the same DNA, and therefore the same ‘genetic...
Five days after her caesarean section, Nancy boarded a night bus in the southern Mexican city of Villahermosa...
Over the past decade, Kaiser Permanente has spent more than $4 billion building the world’s largest private-sector collection of...
Last month, Richard Dawkins offered this tweet about a hypothetical fetus with Down syndrome: “Abort it and try...