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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...

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By Elayne Clift, Daily Kos | 08.18.2023

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids?  The press alert...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 08.17.2023

When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on...

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By Anna Molas, The Conversation | 08.17.2023

Spain performs more than half of all egg donation treatments across Europe. The country is the largest provider of...

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By Arthur Caplan and Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 08.17.2023

The technology associated with assisted reproduction has grown exponentially in the last two decades. Planned oocyte and sperm freezing, posthumous...

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By Deena Beasley, Reuters | 08.16.2023

LOS ANGELES, Aug 12 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 12 story has been corrected to state that ICER's final analysis was...

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By Shefali Luthra, The 19th | 08.14.2023

Amber Bohlman tried almost everything to get pregnant. For five years, she took hormones that gave her headaches. Bohlman underwent...

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By Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy, The Washington Post | 08.14.2023

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On the day Mary Sara died...

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By Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, Scientific American | 08.12.2023

Wrongful arrests, an expanding surveillance dragnetdefamation and deep-fake pornography are all actually existing dangers of so-called...