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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 Fiona MacDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald | 07.06.2013
If things had gone a bit differently, neurocriminologist Adrian Raine could easily have been a murderer, or a rapist –...
By Genevra Pittman, Reuters | 07.04.2013
Researchers looked at a database maintained by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) and found the proportion of cycles...
By Lloyd Lewis and Julie Reiskin, Denver Post | 07.04.2013
Eugenics was a disturbing sociopolitical movement in the early 20th century that promoted reproduction of the "fittest" and limited reproduction...
By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 07.04.2013
The health secretary is launching a new government organisation to oversee the creation of a genomic revolution in healthcare that...
By Ryann Summers, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.03.2013
Recently, a former co-worker and his romantic partner sent me a text message that left me reeling.
It essentially read:...
It essentially read:...
By Kashmir Hill, Forbes | 07.02.2013
In what sounds like a plot twist from a dystopic-future novel, Mississippi is now requiring hospitals to store the blood...
By Larry Husten, Forbes | 07.02.2013
Serious questions have been raised about the integrity and validity of research performed by a well-established German stem cell research...
By Kevin B. O’Reilly, American Medical News | 07.01.2013
Officials at Facebook are exploring how to help patients in need of organ transplants use the social networking service to...