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Staying Human

Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings

Read the Editors’ Introduction
End of Life •
Eugenics •
Reproductive Technology •
Enhancement •
Beginning of Life •
Human Dignity •
Medicine •
Transhumanism •
All

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brad Littlejohn
  • Clare Morell
  • Emma Waters

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

Brad Littlejohn, Clare Morell, Emma Waters

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Emma Waters

Taming IVF’s Wild West

Real regulation is long overdue. But consumer protection is not enough.

Emma Waters

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Abigail Anthony

Golden Eggs

IVF parents shop for good stock at the Ivy Leagues.

Abigail Anthony

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

Embryos as Schrödinger’s Persons

The Alabama IVF ruling reveals peculiar entities that are neither people nor property until we need them to be.

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Charlotte Collingwood

Laboring in the Dark

IVF might sound like an act of taking control, but it felt like an act of surrender.

Charlotte Collingwood

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Matthew Loftus

Arcs of Life

A just society does not kill suffering people, it shares their burden.

Matthew Loftus

Online Exclusive | June 8, 2020

June 8, 2020

  • Brendan Foht

Abortion and the Coronavirus Vaccine

Why we need an option that will be morally acceptable to all Americans

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Brendan Foht

Special Report | Winter 2012

Winter 2012

The Stem Cell Debates

Lessons for Science and Politics
Preface
The Stem Cell Debates
The Science of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
The Promise of Stem Cell Therapies
Ethical Considerations Regarding Stem Cell Research
Stem Cell Research Funding: Policy and Law
Overview of International Human Embryonic Stem Cell Laws

Symposium | Fall 2004 - Winter 2005

Fall 2004 - Winter 2005

The Embryo Question

The Tragedy of Equality
Human Frailty and Human Dignity
The Crisis of Everyday Life
In What Sense Equal?
Acorns and Embryos

Special Report | Summer 2015

Summer 2015

The Threat of Human Cloning

Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action
Executive Summary
Members of the Witherspoon Council
Preface: Cloning Then and Now
Part One: Scientific and Historical Background
Part Two: The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children
Part Three: The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research
Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States
Part Five: Recommendations
Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning
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