Marcy Darnovsky
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, speaks and writes widely on the politics of human biotechnology, focusing on their social justice and public interest implications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Democracy, New Scientist and many others. She has appeared on dozens of television, radio, and online news shows and has been interviewed and cited in hundreds of news and magazine articles. She has worked as an organizer and advocate in a range of environmental and progressive political movements, and taught courses at Sonoma State University and at California State University East Bay. Her Ph.D. is from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Publications
Pro: Research on Gene Editing in Humans Must Continue
By John Harris
In February of this year, the Human Fertilization...
With the ubiquitous ways we apply our knowledge of genetics today—in crop seeds, medicine, space—it’s hard to believe the...
The development of technology that allows human genes to be edited has stirred tremendous excitement about the potential for treating...
In the News
SACRAMENTO — In an election year dominated by a chaotic presidential race and splashy statewide ballot initiative campaigns, Californians are...
Abstract
Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear...
Proposition 14 on the November ballot asks voters to approve $5.5 billion to continue funding stem cell research in California...
Biopolitical Times
To its credit, the fertility industry’s professional organization – the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) – has said...
Two prominent reproductive law attorneys, Theresa Erickson and Hilary Neiman, now await sentencing by a US district court after pleading...
Sex selection technologies and sex-selective abortion are legally prohibited in India, where their use in the service of son preference...