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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 Vardit Ravitsky, Impact Ethics | 06.13.2014
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Elective or ‘social’ egg freezing is a relatively new option available to younger women who are not yet...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.13.2014
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An infant delivered last week in California appears to be the first healthy person ever born in the...

By admin ASAN | 06.12.2014

In response to the recent announcement of the new Google-Autism Speaks collaboration to produce, expand and analyze the world’s largest...

By Margaret Lutze, Guardian Liberty Voice | 06.12.2014
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Should research subjects be given their genetic test results? A paper recently published in The American Journal of...

By Meredith Salisbury, The Huffington Post | 06.12.2014
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As we move closer to an era when a sequence of every human genome is the norm, an...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Verge | 06.12.2014
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For more than a decade, scientists have been developing a fertility technique that involves combining DNA from three...

By Loretta Ross, RH Reality Check | 06.12.2014
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I was sterilized in 1976 when I was 23 years old. My paternalistic doctor visited me the day...

By Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 06.11.2014
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A Canadian court made headlines this month when it decided, as a preliminary matter, that human tissue removed...