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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 Kim Tingley, New York Times Magazine | 06.27.2014
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In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named...

By Jeffrey Shuren, FDA Voice | 06.26.2014
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We’ve come to recognize that almost every disease has a genetic component, and many consumers now are eager...

By RFI, RFI | 06.26.2014

France has the right to ban surrogate parenthood but not to refuse granting legal to parent-child relationships of children born...

By Jerome Batley jr, Associated Press | 06.26.2014
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In 1948, as Naomi Schenck was rushed into a North Carolina operating room because she was having a...

By J.D. Tuccille, Reason | 06.26.2014
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The FBI's facial recognition database, into which it wants to put 52 million of our mugs by...

By Joyce Liptrap, Letter to the Editor, News Leader | 06.25.2014
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In light of the recent Virginia budget announcements, a little known omission to the original budget should be...

By Oliver Tickell, The Ecologist | 06.25.2014
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A scientific study that identified serious health impacts on rats fed on 'Roundup ready' GMO maize has been...

By Shelley Rowland, Lexology | 06.25.2014

Last year, the Federal Court of Australia confirmed that isolated naturally occurring nucleic acid sequences are patent eligible subject matter. ...