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With IVF being used as a wedge issue in attacks on reproductive rights and the incoming administration embracing disturbing eugenic ideas and policies, we've landed in a bewildering political moment. Your support boosts CGS's work connecting these dots and navigating the tricky terrain. Help us raise $25,000 to propel CGS’ urgent work in 2025!
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Serving Two Masters: Trump Team's Tensions on Reproductive Politics
Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 12.16.2024
The incoming Trump Administration may face difficulties establishing consistent policies about controversial issues concerning human reproduction. It will have to navigate the goals of Project 2025 on the one hand and the desires of Trump’s biggest donor, Elon Musk, on the other.
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“DESIGNER BABIES” AND REPRODUCTIVE FUTURES | GENE THERAPIES
EUGENICS | ASSISTED REPRODUCTION | SURROGACY360 | VARIOUS
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“DESIGNER BABIES” AND REPRODUCTIVE FUTURES
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Reproductive Futures: The Promises and Pitfalls of In-Vitro Gametogenesis
Sarojini Nadimpally and Gargi Mishra, The Wire | 12.15.2024
Probable risks and misuses of IVG make it essential to have open and transparent conversations about the ethical, social, and legal implications of the technology. These conversations should involve diverse people, including ethicists, scientists, policymakers, and the general public.
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Silicon Valley’s tech elite want to make superbabies. They shouldn’t
Julia Brown and Daphne Martschenko, The San Francisco Standard | 11.23.2024
Silicon Valley parents are embracing genetic screening of embryos in an attempt to control their children’s future. While the technology can’t deliver on its promises, its use contributes to the damaging message that health, success, and happiness begin with genetic optimization.
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FDA probes blood cancer risk from bluebird’s gene therapy, weighs regulatory action
Christy Santhosh, Reuters | 11.27.2024
Bluebird bio's gene therapy for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, a rare neurological disorder, raises the risks of blood cancer for those who receive it. The treatment already carries a warning about possible blood cancers, and the FDA now recommends that alternatives, such as stem cell transplants, be pursued first.
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Meet the pronatalists — and their huge families
Josie Ensor, The Times | 12.03.2024
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are among an uneasy alliance of US conservatives and tech libertarians who agree women should be encouraged to have more children. Pronatalists fear declining fertility rates and propose policies to increase them, either through encouraging the use of reproductive technologies or removing access to contraception and abortion.
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The eugenicist of UNESCO
Stefan Bernhardt-Radu, Aeon | 12.02.2024
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1945 in an effort to overcome ignorance and prejudice rampant during the Second World War––but its first director embraced the discriminatory and racist ideals of eugenics.
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Law professor’s research sheds light on under-regulated fertility industry
Michelle LePage, TorontoMet Today | 12.13.2024
New research found that egg donors in Canada felt inadequately informed about what egg provision truly involved. Risks and side effects were downplayed or weren’t well explained, and physicians didn’t consistently tell egg donors about the lack of long-term data on egg provision.
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The Egg: A Story of Extraction, Exploitation, and Opportunity
Natalie Obiko Pearson, Jessica Brice, Susan Berfield, Vernon Silver, Kanoko Matsuyama, Cindy Wang, Sinduja Rangarajan, Fani Nikiforaki, Bloomberg | 12.12.2024
A Bloomberg investigation details the operations of egg retrieval and “donation” across borders. A key piece of the $35 billion global reproductive market, the global egg trade lacks regulations and exploits girls and women for profit.
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Cambodia jails 13 pregnant Filipino surrogates
Alex Loftus, BBC News | 12.03.2024
Thirteen women from the Philippines were convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy, which is illegal in the country. They were sentenced to four years in prison, but with two years suspended.
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How a Billionaire’s ‘Baby Project’ Ensnared Dozens of Women
Jackie Davalos and Sophie Alexander, Bloomberg | 12.02.2024
Convicted US insurance fraudster Greg Lindberg built a network of egg donors and surrogates through manipulation and deceit––part of his “baby project” to have dozens of children with partners who have “Aryan looks.” US fertility clinics helped him do it.
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An I.V.F. Mix-Up, a Shocking Discovery and an Unbearable Choice
Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 11.25.2024
Families affected by fertility clinic errors, from failing freezers to embryo mix-ups, confront an industry dominated by private equity-backed, for-profit clinics that operate in a regulatory dead zone.
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How Philippine clinics illegally facilitate surrogacy
Natashya Gutierrez, Rappler | 12.01.2024
Although surrogacy itself is not regulated in the Philippines, many surrogacy clinics illegally falsify birth certificates of children born via surrogacy to avoid the time-consuming process of changing parentage from the birth mother to intended parents.
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