News

The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies.

His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, among other reasons, gene-editing was so new...

Genetic Selection

Baby Bonuses and Motherhood Medals: Why We Shouldn’t Trust the Pronatalist Movement

By Staff, National Women's Law Center | 08.13.2025

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump administration to help encourage women to have more children.

Besides falling short of ensuring that people have what they need...

Human Genetic Modification

We Don’t Know if the Babies Born From Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Will Still Develop Mitochondrial Disease

By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

Assisted Reproduction

Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should they?

By Brittany Luse, Liam McBain, and Neena Pathak, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.28.2025

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

Genetic Selection

St. Louis Officers to File Suit over Department's DNA Collection

By Christine Byers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 11.14.2011
The St. Louis Police Officers' Association filed a grievance today saying the department's collection of DNA from police officers is...
Genomics

All His Children

By Robin Romm, The Atlantic | 11.10.2011
Being admitted to California Cryobank as a sperm donor is a bit like getting into Harvard. The bank accepts fewer...
Assisted Reproduction

Eugenics Past And Present, Driven By Race, Class, Economics

By M.B. Reilly, Eurasia Review | 11.10.2011

Eugenics – the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

IVF Baby Boom: Multiple Births 'Rise 7 Per Cent in a Decade' as Birth Rate Hits 40-Year High

By Claire Bates, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.10.2011
The number of women having multiple births due to IVF has risen dramatically in a decade, figures show.

There were...
Assisted Reproduction

All His Children

By Robin Romm, The Atlantic | 11.10.2011
Being admitted to California Cryobank as a sperm donor is a bit like getting into Harvard. The bank accepts fewer...
Assisted Reproduction

Eugenics Past And Present, Driven By Race, Class, Economics

By M.B. Reilly, Eurasia Review | 11.10.2011

Eugenics – the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

IVF Baby Boom: Multiple Births 'Rise 7 Per Cent in a Decade' as Birth Rate Hits 40-Year High

By Claire Bates, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.10.2011
The number of women having multiple births due to IVF has risen dramatically in a decade, figures show.

There were...
Assisted Reproduction

The Abiding "Fertility Myth"

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.09.2011

Since at least the mid-1990s, the popular press in the developed world has been spreading the word that women’s ability...

Technologies