Bioscience: We soon won’t use sex to reproduce
Artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization are the waves of the future.
Click here for reuse options!In the United States today, these two techniques lead to about 100,000 births each year, roughly 2.5 percent of the 4 million children born annually. Within the next few decades, that percentage will skyrocket. Developments in bioscience, galloping forward in most cases for reasons having nothing to with reproduction, will combine to make IVF cheaper and much easier.
These new techniques will allow safe and easy embryo selection – but they will also open doors to genetically edited babies, “their own” genetic babies for same-sex couples, babies with a single genetic parent, and maybe babies from artificial wombs.
Starting in the next few decades, these new methods of reproduction will give people new choices. They will also raise a host of vexing legal and ethical questions, questions we need to start discussing.
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Mensa Member September 16th, 2016 at 09:53
>> Bioscience: We soon won’t use sex to reproduce
Thank goodness science is coming up with an alternative to sex.
I don’t know anybody who likes it. Good riddance.
Um Cara September 16th, 2016 at 10:27
Meh, that’s my least favorite reason to have sex anyway.
Mike September 16th, 2016 at 16:50
Soon we’ll have maturation chambers and women won’t need to carry a fetus to term.
Suzanne McFly September 16th, 2016 at 17:11
How many use it intentionally for reproduction purposes anyway. I know I was my mom’s best mistake :)