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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 Michele Goodwin and Judy Norsigian, WeNews | 09.01.2013
(WOMENSENEWS)-- On Sept. 5, 2012, a 53-year-old grandmother from Chicago, Cindy Reutzel, birthed her daughter's baby, and said she would...
By Bob Ortega, The Republic | 08.31.2013
In early June, an Indian medical researcher traveled to Chicago to report seemingly astounding results from a decadelong study of...
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN | 08.29.2013
(CNN) -- We've seen beating heart tissue, windpipes and bladders all grown from stem cells. Now researchers have taken another...
By Sam Jewler, CitizenVox | 08.28.2013
I’ve been in tense police-protester situations before, but generally in more of a civil disobedience context. It was the last...
By Meredith Wadman, Nature | 08.28.2013
Was it enough for doctors to tell the parents of extremely premature infants that there was “no additional risk” to...
By Dan Kedmey, Time | 08.27.2013
Kumarasamy Thangaraj traveled 840 miles (1,350 km) off of the eastern coast of India by plane, then ship, then six...
By Donald Zuhn, Patent Docs | 08.27.2013
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Utah Foundation, Inc., Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), Association for Molecular...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 08.27.2013
The first humans left Africa some 200,000 years ago, dispersing to populate the rest of the world. But this was...