News

Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

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...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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...

Civil Society

Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

Policies

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

U.S. States

Pharma to fork: How we'll swallow synthetic biology

By Colin Barras, New Scientist | 04.10.2014
A REVOLUTION is brewing in Bulgaria – quite literally. In vats similar to those used to ferment beer, genetically modified...
Other Countries

Stocking the Genetic Supermarket: Reproductive Genetic Technologies and Collective Action Problems

By Chris Gyngell and Thomas Douglas, Wiley Online Library | 04.10.2014

Various technologies already exist that enable parents to determine whether their future children will have or lack certain genetic predispositions...

Human Genetic Modification

Fetal Abnormalities: The Next Minefield in the Abortion Wars?

By Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, The American Prospect | 04.09.2014
In January, two legislators in Virginia’s House of Delegates introduced a bill that should have been uncontroversial. The bulk of...
U.S. States

Ontario to fund in-vitro fertilization with a caveat — one embryo at a time to cut risky multiple births

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.09.2014
The Ontario government announced Thursday it will become only the second province in Canada to fund in-vitro fertilization [IVF] for...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Meet your unborn child – before it's even conceived

By Catherine de Lange, New Scientist | 04.09.2014
WILL my baby be healthy? It's a question that concerns every prospective parent. Now a service that creates digital embryos...
Genetic Selection

Editorial: Genome editing for all

By Editorial, Nature Biotechnology | 04.08.2014

CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology is attracting a growing cadre of devotees. In the past 18 months, over 125 papers on...

Genetic Selection

Embryo Screening and the Ethics of Human Genetic Engineering

By Leslie A. Pray, Indian Defence | 04.08.2014

What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose...

Eugenics

Fearing Punishment for Bad Genes

By Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 04.07.2014
About 700,000 Americans have had their DNA sequenced, in full or in part, and the number is rising rapidly as...
Genomics