Asexual human reproduction

Perhaps no one has been thinking about this. But, for me, this is the natural progression from before Humanae Vitae. Aarathi prasad, a PhD in mammalian cell biology has done at least one documentary and has written a book Like a Virgin  where she postulates that there will soon be a time where children can be fully created outside the body. She opines that there will be a time when there will be no need for sperm donation, as sperm will be synthetic, and that there will be artificial wombs that can carry the child, making sex essentially just for fun.

Daily mail

She has coined this “Virgin Birth.” and her theory is not necessarily that far off. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley first described what became a human IVF laboratory. It was the stuff of science fiction. And now it is real. Who is to say that the slippery slope won’t eventually get this far.

Servant of God, Jerome LeJeune, pray for sy

About St. Anne Center for Reproductive Health

I am a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist who practiced in the IVF world for 15 years. After seeing the damage that these treatments were causing couples and the complete commodification of life, fueled by a deeper understanding of my Roman Catholic faith, I left the field in 2010. I am currently praying for an end to the culture of death, and hoping to one day have the funding to open the St Anne Center for Reproductive Heath, to provide options for people with challenges to conceive with support and care to follow God's will.
This entry was posted in Infertility. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s