Biopolitical Times

The Center for Genetics and Society blog highlights the latest developments in the social, political, and ethical implications of human biotechnologies, with contributions from staff, fellows, consultants, and guest authors.

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Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore 
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On October 7, Donald Trump’s long-standing promotion of eugenics finally attracted widespread and prominent media attention. Here are a few examples, all posted just in the first hours after Trump’s harangue on a radio podcast about immigrants’ genetic propensity to murder:

  • ‘Very sinister’: Trump stuns Republicans and Dems with on-air ‘bad genes’ rant, Kathleen Culliton, Raw Story, 10/7, 10:15 am
  • Saying immigrants bring ‘bad genes’...
Biopolitical Times

Reproductive rights have been a flashpoint in national politics for decades, with the stakes surging after the Supreme Court shredded the right to an abortion. In the current presidential campaign,  the battle over abortion has swelled and morphed to encompass in vitro fertilization (IVF), which has now moved rapidly from widely accepted to partisan hot button. 

This dramatic shift was highlighted by the February decision of the Alabama Supreme Court that granted personhood rights to frozen IVF embryos, signaling that...

GATTACA was released in 1997, but — remarkably — is even more relevant now than it was then, as the technologies whose social implications it explores have developed considerably. 

On Thursday, June 13, the California Film Institute presented GATTACA to...

Update, June 27, 2024: Spanish and German translations of the Social Justice and Human Rights Principles for Global Deliberations on Heritable Genome Editing are available. 

CGS’ Gender Justice and Disability Rights Coalition has just released Social Justice and Human Rights...