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No men Or women needed - making babies

by Babel-Fish | October 29, 2009 at 12:58 pm

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Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood.

It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own.

But it raises a number of moral and ethical concerns. These include the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies.

The ten minute enjoyment could be over, sex will become obsolete because its messy. However Information Technology is advancing and this could mean linking the brain center in to your lap top computer. Because the next step is on-line non reality sex. In a brave new world.

I am old fashion the status quo is what I like. lol .

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a211423

at 13:32 on October 29th, 2009

Does this differ from in vitro fertilization by the fact they are growing a fetus outside of the human body? They would still need to harvest eggs from a female and gather sperm from a male, and this would have to be done with full disclosure of purpose. However, I can see people selling eggs and sperm on a black market system similarly to how organs are sold on the black market now.

Certainly these are ethical concerns as the Brave New World gets ever closer to reality.

Babel-Fish

at 13:57 on October 29th, 2009

Science fiction has become a human prophecy in many ways and this new scientific break through could bring more reality to some science fiction stories. It's funny how time eradicates human religious objections I expect within 50 years or so such things as stem cell technology will be an acceptable norm.