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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 Maurice Bernstein, Bioethics Discussion | 06.08.2014
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754  wrote "The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This...
By Pete Shanks | 06.06.2014

Over the past couple of months, there has been a cascade of proposals for — or at least discussions about...

By Jenny Graves, The Washington Post | 06.06.2014
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The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furor in the 1990s. But...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2014

Three-person IVF is a critical departure from the traditional kind. This new and biologically extreme technique, which has generated scientific...

By Emily Underwood, Science | 06.05.2014
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The price of President Barack Obama’s BRAIN may have just quadrupled. Last year, the White House unveiled a...

By Bettina Chang, Pacific Standard | 06.05.2014
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You’re familiar with the scene: A skeleton lies, inscrutable, on a table in a dimly lit medical examiner’s office...

By Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check | 06.04.2014
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This week, the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, the National Asian Pacific...

By Lizzie Thelwell, Medical Xpress | 06.04.2014
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Researchers have reviewed current knowledge to further understand the reasons for the increased incidence of birth defects in...