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As abortion pills face new politically motivated legal threats, a new study defends the FDA’s evidence-based science
2+ hour, 52+ min ago (162+ words) The abortion pill mifepristone is one of the most politically contentious medications in America, one increasingly targeted by anti-abortion activists trying to limit its availability and championed by abortion rights supporters seeking greater access. Both sides have pressured the Food…...
How the pro-life movement undermined Trump’s free IVF campaign promise
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (172+ words) Social and religious conservatives spent more than a year lobbying first the Trump campaign and then the administration against mandating or subsidizing insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, which they consider akin to abortion. President Donald Trump'unveiled policies'to lower the…...
GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (234+ words) How does this process work? IVF is a fertility treatment where eggs are retrieved from ovaries, fertilized with sperm in a lab, and resulting embryos are transferred to the uterus. Embryo selection, often through preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), involves screening…...
How should we regulate human-created stem-cell embryos
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (528+ words) Researchers reviewed what countries are doing to regulate SCBEM and proposed what regulation should look like for this field of'stem cell research'to move forward in a manner that everyone can agree is ethically sound. They published their results in'EMBO Reports....
The disabled, the elderly and the poor: Trump administration flirts with eugenics
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (181+ words) Trump has deployed in his administration and in his relationships with billionaires a group of the old and new eugenicists. Some of these leading men believe in a philosophy known as longtermism. For humanity to survive and spread itself across…...
Viewpoint: Ethical questions about embryo screening and eugenics
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (173+ words) Orchid and other start-ups like it take embryos produced by IVF and subject those embryos to polygenic screening. This process produces a "risk score'an estimation of the probabilities that an individual person, once born, will suffer from conditions such as…...
Viewpoint: Screening embryos for diseases—slippery slope and the advantages of being rich
8+ mon, 4+ day ago (166+ words) [D]espite [Noor] Siddiqui's efforts to cast herself as a modern-day Jonas Salk, [Orchid Health genetic screening services are] not a service available to "everyone's" babies'since the testing alone costs thousands of dollars in addition to the price of IVF…...
The ‘fertilization president’ guts CDC IVF research
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (179+ words) The elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team " shocked public health experts and IVF advocates who said they had felt encouraged by President Donald Trump's comments supporting access to the infertility treatment. Just…...
Viewpoint: Should we regulate or ban embryo selection based on IQ?
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (192+ words) In mid-November 2024, the British organization Hope not Hate published its investigative research "Inside the Eugenics Revival. In addition to documentating an active international "race research" network, the investigation also brought to light the existence of a US start-up that offers…...
Viewpoint: Saving the world by having more babies? Time to shut down Peter Thiel’s delusionary wealthy couple
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (225+ words) GLP Policy & Performance Review, 2024 Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker GLP 2021 Annual Report Viewpoint: Saving the world by having more babies? Time to shut down Peter Thiel's delusionary wealthy couple On Tuesday, the Washington Post's Style section published a profile of…...