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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 Dr Steven Fleming, BioNews | 11.11.2013
Professor Lisa Jardine, chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has recently criticised the overuse of intra-cytoplasmic sperm...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 11.11.2013
The plague of non-reproducibility in science may be mostly due to scientists’ use of weak statistical tests, as shown by...
By Belle Boggs, Indy Week | 11.09.2013
Elaine Riddick was 14 when she was sterilized by the state of North Carolina, immediately following the birth, by cesarean...
By Megan Allyse and Marsha Michie, The Wall Street Journal | 11.08.2013
In the 1997 film "Gattaca," wealthy parents regularly use what's called preimplantation genetic diagnosis to pick children with the most...
By Jim Hightower, Boulder Weekly | 11.07.2013
It’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or...
By Medical Xpress, Medical Xpress | 11.07.2013
In an era of commercialized medicine, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing has been on a steady rise. Consumers can purchase a...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 11.07.2013
In 2008, a group of prominent scientists and entrepreneurs announced, after careful consideration, that they would make their genome sequences...
By Miriam Zoll, Lilith | 11.07.2013
At age 50, I am an official member of Generation I.V.F., having grown up after the Pill and Baby Boomer...