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By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025
This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Elle | 04.17.2014
About three years after they got married, in 2007, wedding photographer Mari Smith* and her husband began batting around the...
By Erin Billups, Time Warner Cable News | 04.16.2014
It's been a topic of debate over the past few weeks. Should the FDA allow scientists to alter the mitochondria...
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Time | 04.16.2014
Remember the days when getting pregnant with twins was a surprise? Now if you’re undergoing fertility treatment, you actually have...
By Susan Young Rojahn, MIT Technology Review | 04.16.2014
One of the most important genetic technologies developed in recent years is now patented, and researchers are wondering what they...
By Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press | 04.15.2014
WASHINGTON -- A high-tech screening tool for cervical cancer is facing pushback from more than a dozen patient groups, who...
By Sharon Moalem, Medium | 04.15.2014
I was recently on a flight back to New York from London and was sitting one row away from Daniel...
By ABC, ABC | 04.15.2014
As more than 800 million Indians go to the polls this month, the main political party candidates are being urged...
By Matt McCall, The Columbia Chronicle | 04.14.2014
When I was 7 years old, my father told me I was conceived through an anonymous sperm donation.
As he...
As he...