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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...

pregnancy tests
By Cynthia R. Greenlee, The Guardian | 12.11.2023

For many Black women in the US, infertility has a complicated duality. The inability to conceive is often invisible, pushed...

sickle cell in test tube
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post [cites CGS’ Pete Shanks ] | 12.08.2023

The first medicine based on gene editing, a one-time therapy for sickle cell disease, was just approved in the...

sickle cells
By Rebecca Robbins and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times | 12.08.2023

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought...

embryos on blue background
By Carey Goldberg, The Boston Globe | 12.07.2023

Say you’re about to start in vitro fertilization and your clinic offers you a futuristic new option: It can analyze...

gene therapy money
By Washington Post Staff, The Washington Post | 12.07.2023

The White House on Thursday announced its latest gambit to lower U.S. drug prices: a plan to step in and...

scales weighing fertility vs gene therapy
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 12.06.2023

As a teenager, Marie Tornyenu was always having to explain herself. If it wasn’t the chronic absences that had her...

front page of 1814 NEJM
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 12.06.2023

The New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s oldest continually published medical journal, publicly reckoned with its history and complicity...

graphic of multiple embryos
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 12.06.2023

Leading scientists are calling for a change in the law to help IVF patients donate unused embryos to biomedical research...