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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 Corey G. Johnson, Center for Investigative Reporting | 09.26.2014
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Cynthia Chandler, co-founder of the Oakland, California-based prisoner rights group Justice Now, is not usually short on words...

By Jamie Davies, Aeon | 09.26.2014
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Here is a remarkable fact about identical twins: they have the same DNA, and therefore the same ‘genetic...

By Jo Tuckman, The Guardian | 09.25.2014
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Five days after her caesarean section, Nancy boarded a night bus in the southern Mexican city of Villahermosa...

By Emily Anthes, Bloomberg Businessweek | 09.25.2014
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Over the past decade, Kaiser Permanente has spent more than $4 billion building the world’s largest private-sector collection of...

By George Estreich, Salon | 09.25.2014
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Last month, Richard Dawkins offered this tweet about a hypothetical fetus with Down syndrome: “Abort it and try...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 09.25.2014

Science writer David Dobbs has definitively described the voracious appetite of the "selfish gene" meme, pointing out that the notion...

By News Medical, News Medical | 09.25.2014

A clinical trial led by UC San Francisco has found that when pregnant women are educated about their choices on...

By Donald G. McNeil, The New York Times | 09.24.2014
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The Obama administration on Wednesday issued new guidelines intended to strengthen the oversight of federally funded biology research...