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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 David Ewing Duncan, Newsweek | 03.12.2014
Keeping track of what we reveal about ourselves each day—through email and text messages, Amazon purchases and Facebook "likes"—is hard...
By Sara Bergstresser, Voices in Bioethics | 03.12.2014
The first time I heard Adrienne Asch speak, she had assumed her role as a respected and influential member of...
By Donna Dickenson, The Hedgehog Review | 03.12.2014
Half of the population refuses to accept transfusions from public blood banks, trusting blood taken only from a family member...
By Durgesh Nandan Jha, The Times of India | 03.12.2014
NEW DELHI: Bollywood film 'Vicky Donor' may have popularized sperm donation, but did you know that donation of eggs is...
By Eesha Pandit, RH Reality Check | 03.12.2014
On March 5, the South Dakota house passed a bill that would ban abortions based on the sex of the...
By Miriam Zoll, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor
| 03.12.2014
Data about the risks involved in high-tech assisted reproduction have until recently been scarce. The industry naturally touts success rates...
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 03.11.2014
Myriad Genetics, a Utah-based genetic diagnostics firm, has tried to get the courts to stop its competitors from selling kits...
By Nancy Shute, NPR | 03.11.2014
For more than a decade scientists have been saying that a genomic revolution will transform medicine, making it possible to...