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Terrorist Cites Genetic Research to Promote White Supremacy
Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 05.26.2022
The Buffalo shooter's manifesto cites behavioral genetics research to promote his white supremacist ideology. Some scientists are grappling with the implications; others appear reluctant to do so.
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CGS 2020–2021 Report on Activities
In the midst of navigating a global pandemic, CGS deepened our intersectional analysis of human genetics and assisted reproduction, learning from domestic and global racial justice uprisings. We gained traction in challenging resurgent eugenic beliefs and policies. Through it all, the CGS team worked to ensure a just, equitable, and sustainable future where human genetic and reproductive technologies benefit the common good.
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It’s Too Late to Protect Your Genetic Privacy. The Math Explaining Why.
Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal | 05.20.2022
“Right now, forensic genealogy is very labor intensive and new, and being used for very serious crimes and cold cases,” said CGS’ Katie Hasson. “The likelihood it will be confined to that, without actual enforceable restrictions and regulations, is slim.”
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From small beginnings: to build an anti-eugenic future
Benedict Ipgrave, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Marcy Darnovsky, Subhadra Das, Charlene Galarneau, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Nora Ellen Groce, Tony Platt, Milton Reynolds, Marius Turda, and Robert A. Wilson, The Lancet | 05.21.2022
The From Small Beginnings project will engage the public, civil society, scholars, and scientists with the lessons of eugenic history, and encourage collective imagining of an anti-eugenic future.
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GENOME EDITING | ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
EUGENICS | GENOMICS | SURROGACY360 | VARIOUS
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Base editing marches on the clinic
Michael Eisenstein, Nature | 05.09.2022
Two companies are leading efforts to bring base editing therapies to the clinic. Beam Therapeutics’ trial will use base editing to restore expression of fetal globin in bone marrow stem cells, while Verve Therapeutics is preparing an in vivo base editing trial to treat heart attack patients with abnormally high cholesterol levels.
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UK fertility watchdog could recommend scrapping donor anonymity law
Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.20.2022
The rapid rise of consumer genetic testing websites could soon make it impossible to guarantee donor anonymity – and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is considering bringing the law in line with this new reality.
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LGBTQ Couples’ IVF Hopes Hinge on New Infertility Definition
Shira Stein, Bloomberg Law | 05.17.2022
The Biden Administration could update the Affordable Care Act to address the definition of infertility often used by insurance plans to determine eligibility for IVF—a definition that is impossible for some LGBTQ individuals to meet.
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Overturn of Roe could make IVF more complicated, costly
Ariana Eunjung Cha and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, The Washington Post | 05.11.2022
The potential Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is expected to open the door to state laws that give human embryos legal rights and protections, which might limit choices would-be parents currently have about whether to use, store, or discard genetic material that is part of the in vitro fertilization process.
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‘Our Father’ TV Review: Sins of the Doctor
John Anderson, The Wall Street Journal | 05.10.2022
Only briefly acknowledging fertility doctor Donald Cline’s ties to an extremist Christian group with a racist agenda, the documentary leaves the possible eugenic and religious motivations of fertility fraud unexamined.
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‘Why Biology Is Not Destiny’: An Exchange
Kathryn Paige Harden, Nick Patterson, Victor I. Reus, and Henry D. Schlinger Jr., reply by M.W. Feldman and Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books | 05.25.2022
“Overall, Harden’s letter confirms what we said in our review: while disavowing essentialist, racist, and eugenic notions she affirms a new version of the old illogic that has long supported them.”
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The “Great Replacement” Theory Is the American Way
Marjua Estevez, Raquel Reichard, Refinery29 | 05.19.2022
False claims that white people in the U.S. are intentionally being replaced are not new motivators for violence targeting Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous populations, as evidenced by the popularity of the early 20th century eugenics movement and its policies to control reproduction and rewire the country’s racial composition.
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The “Great Replacement Theory” Was Never “Fringe”
Tanvi Misra, Harper’s Bazaar | 05.18.2022
The racist ideology that white Americans are being replaced by immigrants—and the deadly violence that idea has led to—was promoted by powerful bureaucrats, senators, presidents, and journalists, including leaders of the early 20th century eugenics movement.
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What Genetics Can—and Cannot—Reveal about an Individual’s COVID Risk
Joanna Thompson, Scientific American | 05.18.2022
Genome-wide association studies are becoming an increasingly common avenue to assess COVID risk, but experts warn that genomic analysis may be difficult to disentangle from social risk factors and could lead to increased discrimination in health systems.
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Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans
Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.17.2022
New treatments aim for a gene variant causing the illness in people of sub-Saharan African descent. But a focus on variants may let policymakers ignore the social and economic disparities underlying the disease.
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Playing God with Pork
Jonathan Grinstein, Neo.Life | 05.19.2022
Recent developments in xenotransplantation raise a host of ethical questions, including cost, patient autonomy and privacy, and animal welfare.
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A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of
Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Technology Review | 05.13.2022
The European Union is planning new legislation, the AI Act, aimed at curbing the worst harms associated with artificial intelligence. If the EU succeeds, it could set a new global standard for AI oversight.
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