March 19, 2018
(The Japan Times) – The government is planning to carry out a nationwide survey into forced sterilization operations ordered under a now-defunct eugenics law, amid renewed scrutiny of the practice, sources said Wednesday. The results of the survey, which the … Read More
March 13, 2018
(Reuters) – When she was a child in Germany, Dr. Franziska Eckert’s family minimized the role her grandparents played in World War II. Then her own investigation uncovered the likely truth – her grandfather was a mass murderer. “Ninety-five percent … Read More
February 23, 2018
(The Japan Times) – A Hokkaido man in his 70s plans to file a lawsuit seeking damages from the government over his forced sterilization at around age 20 under the 1948 eugenic protection law, sources said Thursday, as a related … Read More
February 12, 2018
(New York Post) – New York City parents start plotting their offspring’s social ascension before the kids are even born. Dr. Brian Levine, the practice director of CCRM New York, an all-inclusive fertility center, said it’s not uncommon for patients … Read More
February 12, 2018
(U.S. News & World Report) – The third and final compensation payment has been mailed to sterilization victims, marking the end of a 15-year pursuit of financial help for people who suffered under North Carolina’s eugenics program.
February 8, 2018
(International Business Times) – University College London (UCL) recently launched an urgent investigation into reports that a senior academic secretly ran a conference on eugenics at the institution for three years. As an exhibition at the prestigious institution reveals, the … Read More
January 31, 2018
(Japan Today) – A woman in her 60s sued the government Tuesday seeking 11 million yen in damages over her forced sterilization when she was a teenager on grounds of mental disability under the now-defunct eugenic protection law. The woman … Read More
January 26, 2018
(Japan Times) – Records of 2,700 people who were sterilized under the Eugenic Protection Law — which was in force for decades until 1996 — have been found in local governmental archives, a development that could help victims seek state … Read More
January 26, 2018
(Bloomberg) – As one would expect, the ethical and moral implications of this technology are already sparking heated debate. That is good. But there are also economic implications, some of which interact with the ethical issues, and these are worth … Read More
January 22, 2018
(BBC) – The Church of England has warned the future existence of people with Down’s Syndrome is “under question”. It has called for expectant mothers to be given “comprehensive, unbiased information” ahead of the NHS roll-out of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing … Read More
January 19, 2018
(The Independent, Ireland) – Parents will be allowed to choose the sex of their baby under proposed new legislation, it emerged yesterday. The right of parents to decide the gender to avoid passing on a serious inherited disease will be part … Read More
January 16, 2018
(Wired) – You have instant communication, on-demand entertainment, and dial-up transportation—why should you have to wait nine months to see what kind of baby you’re going to have? Now there’s an app for that. In a modern-day reboot of Lindsay … Read More
January 16, 2018
(The Conversation) – The bottom line is not that eugenics has become defunct but that people want to be more personally involved in its application. This still leaves open many of the great moral questions that have dogged the field, … Read More
January 15, 2018
(Daily Mail) – A new IVF method that takes thousands of pictures of embryos to select the best eggs has increased the likelihood of a baby being born by 25 per cent. The developing embryos are photographed while in incubators every … Read More
January 3, 2018
(International Business Times) – China’s illegal surrogacy market is booming with vast numbers of women earning money through offering their wombs for service. Women in rural villages are being lured away from their factory jobs to carry others’ fertilised eggs … Read More
December 27, 2017
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Gammy, who has Down Syndrome, was near-death when his sister was taken more than 5000 kilometres away to a remote Western Australian town only weeks after their births in a public hospital in Bangkok on December … Read More
December 27, 2017
(WFAA) – The baby was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, or HLHS, 16 weeks into pregnancy. His biological parents demanded an abortion. The surrogate, refused, saying doctors told her the condition was treatable and … Read More
December 14, 2017
(NPR) – When a pregnant woman finds out that she’s likely to give birth to a baby with Down syndrome, she’s often given the option to terminate the pregnancy. But families affected by the genetic disorder, which causes developmental delays, … Read More
November 9, 2017
(Undark Magazine) – This dystopian nightmare might not be that farfetched, some academics warn, given the rise of big data, advances in machine learning, and — most worryingly — the current rise in studies that bear a troubling resemblance to … Read More
November 6, 2017
(Medscape) – History tells us that fears about designer babies are exaggerated when it comes to the alteration, deletion, or swapping of genes in human embryos, renowned bioethicist Alta Charo, PhD, said during a TEDMED 2017 talk in Palm Springs, … Read More
November 6, 2017
(Undark) – Harvard medical geneticist Robert C. Green, reflective, cautious, and as decent as a scientist can sound, took to television last month to make people aware of an open trial at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which uses genomic sequencing to … Read More
November 1, 2017
(MIT Technology Review) – IVF clinics already test the DNA of embryos to spot rare diseases, like cystic fibrosis, caused by defects in a single gene. But these “preimplantation” tests are poised for a dramatic leap forward as it becomes … Read More
October 30, 2017
(Medscape) – Genetic technologies are rapidly reshaping medical practice. In 2016, more than 48,000 genetic tests were ordered, many with the primary goal of confirming a clinical diagnosis and guiding medical decision-making.[1] The explosion of genomic diagnostics is allowing more … Read More
October 30, 2017
(First Things) – When first invented, in vitro fertilization (IVF) was sold as a medical remedy to be limited to married couples who could not otherwise conceive. That moralistic restriction is long gone. Today, access to IVF has few limitations—and … Read More
October 25, 2017
(Scientific American) – Medical historians have recently published accounts that show neurologists were indeed complicit with the Nazis—and became victims if they were classified as “non-Aryan. Heiner Fangerau, who teaches the history and ethics of medicine at University Hospital Düsseldorf—along … Read More
