FUTURE HUMAN

The Babies at the Fringes of Fertility Tech

Beyond the reach of U.S. law, doctors are changing the way babies are made

Alex Pearlman
OneZero
Published in
9 min readJul 31, 2018

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Illustrations by Maria Chimishkyan

IIt’s 10:30 p.m. in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Dr. Valery Zukin is at the hospital with a patient who needs emergency surgery. The patient is 31 weeks pregnant and has intestinal obstruction — a rare complication that’s…

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Alex Pearlman
OneZero

Reporter. Bioethicist. Publishing on the intersection of ethics and policy with emerging science and tech.