1. \u00a0triple-parent reproduction, such as uterus donation.
2. \u00a0\u201cpersonalized\u201d fertility assessments (e.g., for a given woman, how do her own chances of conception decline as she ages?)
3. \u00a0precise forecasting of most fertile times of the month (which is goofy \u2014 fertility awareness methods do a perfectly fine job) and sensors to monitor the unborn children conceived as a result
4. \u00a0creating sperm and egg cells out of ordinary body cells, to enable two men or two women to be the genetic parents of a child, and
5. \u00a0massively-expanded eugenic testing of IVF children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ordinarily, such an article wouldn\u2019t even merit commenting on, as far removed from the real world as it appears to be. \u00a0Even if such technologies come to pass, the vast majority of children would still be conceived of the \u201cold-fashioned way,\u201d and one suspects that the author is living in a \u201cnone of my friends voted for Nixon\u201d sort of world (that is, with a very homogeneous liberal social group) if she thinks that people looking for such technology are anything but a small minority. <\/p>\n
What would be a radical change would be an artificial womb \u2014 it would be a game-changer both in enabling women to become mothers without the inconveniences of pregnancy and would raise ethical issues, such as, does a woman have a right to abort a child if a \u201ctransplantation\u201d to an artificial womb is an alternative?<\/p>\n
All of this wouldn\u2019t be a game-changer in itself, but the biggest potential development is whether these technologies push us further towards a future of \u201cbig cat<\/a>\u201d families, in which reproduction is a woman\u2019s business, with men at the fringes. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Other McCain\u201d linked today to an article in The Atlantic with five predictions about the future of reproduction: 1. \u00a0triple-parent reproduction, such as uterus donation.2. \u00a0\u201cpersonalized\u201d fertility assessments (e.g., for a given woman, how do her own chances of conception decline as she ages?)3. \u00a0precise forecasting of most fertile times of the month (which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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