“Dear Chairman: How Many Kids Should I Have?”
The imposition of the practice of eugenics by political powers has been prominent since the 19th century — all with an underlying goal of controlling the population. Whether executed to cleanse a certain race/religion, as seen with the Holocaust, or to prevent ‘unfit’ people from reproducing, as seen with the United State’s Sterilization Laws in […]
A New Era of Parenting
We are on the brink of a mind-bending technological revolution that will completely alter the omnipresent case of infertility. Through an emerging technology – In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) – biologists are experimenting with turning a human skin or blood cell into a gamete (sperm or egg). The cell is reverse-engineered through genetic reprogramming to an […]
Assistive Reproductive Technologies – The Debate Has Just Begun…
In the United States, nearly 15 percent of couples are infertile which has led to the development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). ART is mind-boggling technology that has a whole range of advances, from providing couples with fertility treatments to genetically profiling embryos (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis – PGD). However, with reproductive technologies there are countless […]