The Frankenstein fear of reproductive engineering so far has been the future possibility that women could have babies without men, rendering males obsolete. But now scientists are working on making ordinary cells function as eggs, so that they can be fertilized by sperm. They have already made this work with baby mice.
So maybe women, with the further invention of artificial wombs, will become obsolete instead. Not only that, this new technology, should it work, would allow two men to conceive a child. If we get rid of either women or men, same-sex marriage might be the only kind left. Perhaps the fluid gender movement is a preparation for the time when human beings will have no gender and no sex at all!
From James Gallagher, Making babies without eggs may be possible, say scientists – BBC News:
Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs.
They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs.
The findings in Nature Communications, could, in the distant future, mean women can be removed from the baby-making process, say the researchers. . . .
Removing the need for an egg could have a wider impact on society.
Dr Perry said: “One possibility, in the distant future, is that it might be possible that ordinary cells in the body can be combined with a sperm so that an embryo is formed.”
In other words, two men could have a child, with one donating an ordinary cell and the other, sperm.
Or one man could have his own child using his own cells and sperm – with that child being more like a non-identical twin than a clone.
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