Bernard Dickens and Rebecca J. Cook (Toronto): The Legal Status of In Vitro Embryos. From Rorotoko, Lynn M. Morgan on her book Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos. What about IVF? The embryo technology that evangelicals don’t oppose. From Philosophy TV, Michael Boylan and Rosemarie Tong debate reproductive rights and artificial reproduction. Assembling the Global Baby: With an international network of surrogate mothers and egg and sperm donors, a new industry is emerging to produce children on the cheap and outside the reach of restrictive laws. Modern parenting: If we try to engineer perfect children, will they grow up to be unbearable? (and a reponse) A review of Choosing Tomorrow's Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction by Stephen Wilkinson. Lessons from the womb: How much does prenatal influence matter? New research suggests that humans are profoundly affected for life by what happens to them before they are even born. The impulse to be social is so deep-seated in human consciousness that it’s even evident in the womb. Is this the pregnancy policewoman? A review of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul (and more and more and more and more). Mapping the genome of a fetus from its mother's blood could mean less risky screening for prenatal diseases. A review of Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow.
