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Press Room News / China

Newborn Baby tossed in courtyard miraculously survives

Found with umbilical cord still attached By Dave Andrusko The story that appears today in the Daily Mail understandably includes the cautionary note, “WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT.” It is a very disturbing account of an abandoned baby who was found “naked at a...

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China not fostering a culture of respect for human dignity

By Michael Cook Writing in the magazine Foreign Policy, a Chinese scientist has a gloomy prediction for bioethicists: “China Will Always Be Bad at Bioethics.” Yangyang Cheng, a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University, believes that the Chinese state is...

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Gigantic imbalance among the sexes in China and India

Government policies + sex-selection abortions multiple impact of cultural preference for boys By Dave Andrusko When the first eight words of a story are “Nothing like this has happened in human history,” it gets your attention. The rest of Simon Denyer’s and Annie...

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China rushes into embryo selection

By Michael Cook Gene-editing with CRISPR [Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat] has been in the headlines over the past month and touted as a way of eliminating genetic diseases. But the cruder and cheaper technique of preimplantation genetic...

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More victims of the two-child policy

A woman and four children By Marcus Roberts Although the one-child policy in China was ditched a couple of years ago, the law still prevents Chinese couples from deciding for themselves how many children to have. Couples are still prevented from having more than two...

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