News

Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

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...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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...

Civil Society

Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

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

Why it matters: Confusing...

Policies

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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

U.S. States

Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists

By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 09.04.2023

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Eugenics

The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing

By Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker | 09.02.2023

He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the...

Policies

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British women turn to IVF clinics in Greece and Turkey to avoid higher costs

By Sarah Marsh, The Guardian | 09.01.2023

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Caroline cried cycling to work after discovering she was going through early menopause. She...

Other Countries

Waiting Room

By Alison Motluk, Hazlitt | 08.30.2023

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When Alexandra...

Other Countries

New paper lays out problems of developing gene-edited GM crops

By Claire Robinson, GM Watch | 08.30.2023

Announcing the passing into law of the Genetic Technology Act, which removes regulatory safeguards around a whole subclass of GMOs...

Animal Biotechnologies

The fight over a “dangerous” ideology shaping AI debate

By AFP, France24 | 08.28.2023

Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction...

Society

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Lab-grown babies on the horizon: how IVG could transform human reproduction

By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.22.2023

Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...

Human Genetic Modification

Inside the Smithsonian’s “Racial Brain Collection” and the Eugenics Project Behind It

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | 08.18.2023

The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which...

Bioethics