There is no denying that normal people fear the rise of artificial intelligence and the nightmare that might come with the rapidly increasing presence of online robots.
While pro-child mutilation and job-stealing bots dominate conversations about a coming dystopia, another hellish threat to our bodies, minds, and souls has lurked for decades.
Thanks to big fertility, dystopia has been on America’s doorstep for years now. Few may realize it, but fears that society will be corrupted by a profit-driven, morally ambiguous industry that takes advantage of humans should have already found cause for concern in assisted reproductive technologies.
It’s clear that, with its ability to redefine even the most complex natural processes and sell them to the public, the test tube baby market embodies the dehumanization of humanity.
The Reproductive Revolution
On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown became the first “test tube” baby to be successfully born of IVF experimentation. Her entry into the world was hailed as “groundbreaking” for the rapidly evolving world of assisted reproduction but was ultimately unsurprising to researchers who devoted decades to IVF.
For years before Brown’s conception, scientists in labs all over the world sought out new methods to meddle with procreation. The first recorded account of such experimentation came in the 1890s at the hand of Cambridge professor Walter Heape, who transplanted rabbit embryos into rabbit uteruses. His work was expanded in 1934 by Gregory Pincus who tried to mix rabbit egg and sperm “in the glass top
