Latest NewsReproductive technologies and the federal constitutional vacuum FlynnAugust 18, 2026 We are on the cusp of some revolutionary new reproductive technologies. Yet the Supreme Court has been silent on how to think about what the Constitution might have to say about the last wave of technologies dating back to the early 1980s. Questions about the propriety of destroying embryos, whether women can lawfully agree to sell their reproductive labor as surrogates, gene editing, radically new forms of family formation, as well as questions of dignity, access, and equality, cut to the quick of what kind of country we are. To the extent we view the Constitution as the ultimate repository of those values, the court’s current silence on what the Constitution means feels deafening. GOPReproductive Healthreproductive technologySCOTUSTrump
