Do Your Children Have The Right to An Open Genetic Future?
Parents’ desires for genetic information about their children can vary widely. The big question is what genetics experts and institutions think they should know—and how we might empower parents to take...
View ArticleShould We Convene a UN Convention on the Rights of Children of Technology?
When Mary Ann Mason became the first female graduate dean at U.C. Berkeley in 2000, she noticed a trend. The number of women on the faculty was nowhere close to the number of women in graduate school....
View ArticleNEO.LIFE and Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter: Get Ready for Same Sex Reproduction
My latest story … When artificial sperm and eggs become a reality, the sex of your baby-making partner won’t matter. Sex Cells If it does work, the first application likely would be in reversing...
View ArticleFamily Fluidity: Love, Science and the Future of Family
One morning, my son Alexander logged on to his 2nd-grade morning Zoom meeting . The topic of the morning’s lesson was family. Watching in the background, I became nervous. He was new to this school...
View ArticleUSA Today: Democrats’ new superpower: Single parents like me are a growing...
These roles and role models have shaped this Democratic team as empathetic leaders. It is a less discussed but important character strength because they understand the needs of a growing family type in...
View ArticleNeo.Life: A Womb with a View
Bio bags, robotic preemies, artificial wombs, and the coming revolution in postnatal care to save babies born too soon. Premature birth is one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide, killing...
View ArticleNeo.Life: PORTRAIT OF A PROFESSIONAL BABY MAKER
With 27 biological children and three surrogate pregnancies under her belt, it’s all business as usual for Tyra Reeder. The post Neo.Life: PORTRAIT OF A PROFESSIONAL BABY MAKER appeared first on Rachel...
View ArticleFirst Place for General Excellence in Feature Writing, Reproductive Science
I’m very honored to announce that I won first place in feature writing from the Association of Healthcare Journalists. The story is called “Portrait of a Professional Babymaker” published in Jane...
View ArticleNeo.Life: The Future of Birth Control
Male contraceptive gels, “night-before” pills that disrupt ovulation, and the brave future of human contraception. “There may well be radical new narratives we so-called “rational” people will be...
View ArticleMy new book, Reconceptions: Modern Relationships, Reproductive Science and...
“Whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” —Charles...
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