Marcy Darnovsky

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, speaks and writes widely on the politics of human biotechnology, focusing on their social justice and public interest implications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Democracy, New Scientist and many others. She has appeared on dozens of television, radio, and online news shows and has been interviewed and cited in hundreds of news and magazine articles. She has worked as an organizer and advocate in a range of environmental and progressive political movements, and taught courses at Sonoma State University and at California State University East Bay. Her Ph.D. is from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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By Marcy Darnovsky, Susan Berke Fogel, Judy Norsigian, Nature | 12.01.2011

The demand for women’s eggs for research could soar alarmingly following news of a cloning technique that uses human oocytes...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Ms. Magazine Blog | 06.06.2011

As best as demographers can figure, the world is short about 160 million girls and women–equivalent to the entire female...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 04.22.2011

A new approach to testing the genes of early-stage fetuses could radically alter the experience of pregnancy and parenting. And...

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