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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...

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...

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

Why it matters: Confusing...

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

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 12.18.2013
In 2005, Tania Simoncelli managed to shock the senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Simoncelli, the organization’s...
By Amanda Schaffer, MIT Technology Review | 12.17.2013

Pregnant women and their partners can already peer at an unborn child’s chromosomes: with amniocentesis, they can learn about the...

By Marisa Peñaloza, WBUR | 12.17.2013
Thousands of children are conceived using sperm and egg donors every year, a group large enough to entice MTV to...
By Enola Aird, MomsRising | 12.17.2013
Lots of children have three parents.  A boy’s mother and father might divorce, and one remarries.  A girl might be...
By The Editorial Board, USA Today | 12.16.2013
Opening the door to genetic testing and its potential health benefits to anyone with $99 and the desire to spit...
By Karen Weintraub, The New York Times | 12.16.2013
Alana Saarinen sat at the piano, playing smoothly and with feeling. Behind her, plastic toys shared floor space with a...
By The Times editorial board, The Los Angeles Times | 12.16.2013
The Supreme Court erred grievously this year when it permitted Maryland police to collect DNA samples from people who had...
By John Gillott, BioNews | 12.16.2013
The House of Commons Education Committee is currently investigating 'Underachievement in education of white working class children'. At a session...