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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 Jane Wakefield, BBC News | 12.09.2013
Raymond McCauley may go blind as he gets older.
He knows this because when he had his genetic code read...
By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 12.09.2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Obama administration are urging a federal appeals court to...
By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune | 12.09.2013
In the wake of a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Salt Lake City-based...
By Marilynn Marchione, AP | 12.08.2013
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...
By USA Today, USA Today | 12.08.2013
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...
By Fredrick Kunkle, The Washington Post | 12.08.2013
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Growing national attention to the 20th-century practice of forcibly sterilizing thousands of Americans has put new pressure...
By BBC, BBC | 12.06.2013
The chances of a woman having a baby following IVF go "very rapidly downhill" from the age of 37, according...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 12.06.2013
Bowing to the Food and Drug Administration, the genetic testing service 23andMe said Thursday that it would stop providing consumers...