News

Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

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...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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...

Civil Society

Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

Policies

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

"MC0_8230" via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by 2.0 

This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

U.S. States

Procedure to Create Babies with Three People's DNA Could be Legalised in April [UK]

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 07.22.2014
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Britain's fertility regulator could allow doctors to create the first babies to have three people's DNA from next...

Biopolitics

A Whisper Past: Childless after Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta

By Moyra Lang, Living Archives on Eugenics Blog | 07.21.2014

A Whisper Past: Childless after Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta by Leilani Muir

Leilani Muir, eugenic survivor, has written her biography...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Sequenced in the U.S.A.: A Desperate Town Hands Over Its DNA

By Amanda Wilson, Pacific Standard | 07.21.2014
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In a lot of ways, the people of Kannapolis, North Carolina, are lucky.

Eleven years ago, the community...

Bioethics

Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 6: DNA, Blood Types and Stereotypes

By Alex Ewen, Indian Country Today Media Network | 07.19.2014
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Archaeological discoveries in South America in the 1980s led to a revision in the timeline of the Bering...

Racial Justice

California's Stem Cell Scandal Gets Worse

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 07.18.2014
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Anyone who cares about the advance of medical science and about the promise of biotechnology should be dismayed...

Stem Cells

Race, Genetics and Voting?

By Ian Haney López, Moyers & Company | 07.18.2014
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Writing recently in The New York Times, Thomas Edsall linked race, genes and political ideology. Edsall, a...

Biopolitics

Rethinking 21st Century Racism on the Way Home

By Victoria Massie, GeneWatch | 07.17.2014

Returning home from fieldwork can be difficult when you find yourself caught between an unintended call back to your project...

Racial Justice

Proposed Gene Technology Could Alter Organisms in Wild

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 07.17.2014
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A powerful new technology could be used to “edit” the genomes of organisms in the wild, enabling researchers...

Environmentalism