Some commonalities - breeding, birth, women's bodies....

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Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss

and this seems associated if not directly connected: US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’ (What is genomic prediction and can embryos really be ‘screened for IQ’?) Apart from the fact that this is probably pretty much woowoo, the 1920s eugenic dystopias where they'd done this were so ghastly I would seriously Not Recommend.

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Thinking about pregnancy, childbirth, etc, and how this is not historically unchanging:

The Abortion Debate Could Open an Overdue Conversation on Pregnancy Loss (though honestly, I'd expect a reference there to my pal Jesse Olsynko-Gryn's work on the history of pregnancy testing. But it's absolutely right about the (really recent) 'a new ideal in which pregnancies were planned and perceived as precious from the earliest moments':

This creates a culture in which early pregnancy loss is perhaps more devastating than it has to be, for some women — despite the relatively high odds of losing the pregnancy.

The lethal nature of pregnancy, not just actual childbirth: Dying from Pregnancy.

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Motherhood, mothering, caring:

The untold stories of thousands of children left at 'foundling hospitals' - including one in Chester - have been published for the first time.

Early modern women as foster-carers under parish poor law system: Women as child carers: Arranging and compensating mothering in early modern Lancashire.