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

Stirring the Simmering “Designer Baby” Pot

By Thomas H. Murray, Science | 03.14.2014

In February 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee met to consider...

Assisted Reproduction

23andMe and the FDA

By George J. Annas and Sherman Elias, The New England Journal of Medicine | 03.13.2014
In August 2013, the genetic-testing company 23andMe began running a compelling national television commercial, in which attractive young people said...
Bioethics

What We Know About Three-Parent In VitroFertilization

By Jessica Cussins, RH Reality Check | 03.13.2014

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting in late February to consider experimental new techniques that would...

Assisted Reproduction

New Polling Raises Public Safety Concerns About Three Parent Children Proposals

By Press Release, Care | 03.13.2014
New polling released by the charity CARE this morning supports the concern expressed by MPs yesterday afternoon that the Government...
Bioethics

Martha, My Dear: What De-Extinction Can’t Bring Back

By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker | 03.12.2014
Sometime in the summer of 1914, probably on September 1st but perhaps a few days earlier, the last passenger pigeon...
Biotech & Pharma

Hacking Your DNA

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...
Global Governance

Adrienne Asch: A Career at the Intersection of Bioethics and Disability Studies

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...

Genomics

In Me We Trust: Public Health, Personalized Medicine, and the Common Good

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...

Biotech & Pharma