TVC E. A scientist Henry T. Greely has said that humans will stop having sex to make babies within 30 years.
Greely explains the revolutionary biological technologies that make this future a seeming inevitability and sets out the deep ethical and legal challenges humanity faces as a result.
He said, ”Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation, gestation, and birth. And it will be safe, lawful, and free.”
This means prospective parents will simply head to the lab to provide raw materials (sperm, skin cells, etc) to formulate their perfect baby.
In a paper titled “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction” by medical and law expert Henry T. Greely, Parents will be told how attractive, clever and healthy each resulting embryo is likely to be.
“We won’t be able to say: ‘this child is in the top 1% of intelligence, we will probably be able to to say: this child has a 60% chance of being in the top half.’”
Described as “prophetic scholarship”, the paper suggests that certain hereditary diseases could be stamped out by the new method, as a handy side effect of a new super race of irritatingly perfect children that will consistently make the older generations wonder why this science passed them by.
Developments in genetics and stem cell research are giving rise to new techniques that will vastly improve preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and in vitro fertilization (IVF), making sexless reproduction not just possible but cheap and easy.
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