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Ectogenesis: How artificial placentas could aid premature babies, upend entrenched abortion views

David Warmflash |
Survival rates are likely to be improved for infants born prematurely, and those requiring invasive treatments -- including surgery, cell ...
GLP Podcast: Abortion muddies COVID vaccine debate; Coffee is heart healthy again; Genetics of homosexuality

GLP Podcast: Abortion muddies COVID vaccine debate; Coffee is heart healthy again; Genetics of homosexuality

Cameron English, Kevin Folta |
If women have a right to abortion, does everyone else have a right to refuse a COVID shot? The "my ...
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Podcast: ‘Artificial womb’ raises awkward ethical questions about abortion, child welfare and health freedom

Cameron English, Ross Pomeroy |
Biotechnology is fundamentally changing food and medicine. Thanks to genetic engineering, for example, we have access vitamin-fortified GMO crops, plentiful ...
Reproductive medicine could become entangled in the 'embryos are people' debate

Reproductive medicine could become entangled in the ’embryos are people’ debate

Eric Forman |
The announcement that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire at the end of [July] and President Trump’s nomination of ...
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Alternate facts: Why are we still telling women that abortion causes breast cancer?

Ricki Lewis |
On June 26th, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of crisis pregnancy centers that were challenging a California law, the Reproductive ...
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Controversy walks hand-in-hand with the artificial womb, but is it warranted?

Sara Talpos |
Research into the development of an artificial womb has sparked a wide range of conjecture from bioethicists who worry about ...
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Boy or girl: Should prenatal testing be censored for fear it may become a sex-selection tool?

Meredith Knight |
Some prominent ethicists push for limiting the release of prenatal testing for fear the information could be used by parents ...
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Could gene editing, Prozac or choline treat Down Syndrome?

Meredith Knight |
Scientists may be closing in on an effective treatment for Down Syndrome. But questions abound as to the ethics of ...
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Wrongful birth: Court upholds parental rights when hospital and lab screw up genetic testing

Meredith Knight |
Many conservatives are upset about a $50 million judgment on behalf of a family that had a baby with severe ...