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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 Michael Cook, BioEdge | 08.16.2014
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Australian law could be revised to allow more than two parents, if recommendations in a major report are...

By Sarah Dingle, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.16.2014

The discovery in her late 20s that she was conceived using a sperm donor was a huge shock to Sarah...

By Theodora Ross, The New York Times | 08.16.2014

DALLAS — ON Aug. 6, researchers announced in The New England Journal of Medicine that they had found that mutations...

By Jane Ridley, New York Post | 08.13.2014

Fashionable New York professional women gathered at a first-of-its-kind “egg-freezing party” this week — where they sipped champagne while learning...

By Sarah S. Richardson, Cynthia R. Daniels, Matthew W. Gillman, Janet Golden, Rebecca Kukla, Christopher Kuzawa & Janet Rich-Edwards, Nature | 08.13.2014

From folk medicine to popular culture, there is an abiding fascination with how the experiences of pregnant women imprint on...

By Candice Marcus, ABC | 08.13.2014
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A High Court ruling that DNA evidence was not enough to convict a man of murder could have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.13.2014

No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning comedian Robin Williams would kill himself.

Or could they?

When someone commits suicide...

By The Guardian, The Guardian | 08.13.2014

Thailand's military government gave preliminary approval for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a...