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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 Ed Yong, National Geographic | 12.23.2013
I’m really optimistic about the future for long, deep, rich science reporting. There are more places that are publishing it...
By Wendy Kramer, Medium | 12.23.2013
In 1988 the Office of Technology Assessment estimated that 30,000 children were born via donor insemination during the year 1986/87...
By Alana Cattapan, Impact Ethics | 12.21.2013
On December 10, 2013, the Montreal Gazette published a story describing an ongoing dispute between Dr. Seang Lin Tan and...
By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic | 12.20.2013
The title of my blog post is provocative, I know, but I’m actually just lifting it from the title of...
By Shereen Jegtvig, Reuters | 12.20.2013
(Reuters Health) - People who donated sperm and eggs before 1998 in one Australian state were able to remain anonymous...
By Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 12.19.2013
For better and worse, 2013 has been a year in which several related issues familiar to those who follow human...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 12.19.2013
Researchers have for the first time determined the genome sequence of human egg cells without destroying them.
The feat, reported...
The feat, reported...
By Dan Vergano, National Geographic | 12.19.2013
Advances in our understanding of the brain have turned neuroscience into one of the hottest frontiers in research, and in...