Google Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQGlAM0iWFM

What a video!

Depicts a glimpse into the modern world of in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy.

It seems like sci fi to think that for the right price one can "craft" a child.

You can go to a sperm donor site and read profiles, selecting for hair color, height, age, activities, probably even SAT scores. The same for an egg donor: beauty, family history, etc. And then find a surrogate, who will eat on a strict nutritional regiment, do yoga a few times a day, etc. All of this giving the impression of being able to pick traits of the child.

And then pay to have all these put together, the pregnancy lived out by the surrogate, and then just show up for the finished product at the birth!

This video raises questions about the donors and the surrogate: with so much money to be made, how much do these people donate and carry pregnancy for someone else because they want to, think it is ethical, or anything other than the monetary incentive? Does it matter?

And what about the surrogate mother that carried the child for nine months? In the video it shows them crying quite a bit during the process, just giving up the born child, a piece of themselves.

In-vitro fertilization is not a sure thing, so you can often have multiple surrogates carrying multiple embryos in order to increase the chance that one will work out..what happens if they all work out??

The future is now and it is allowing people to overcome infertility and increase "control" of offspring creation...It is also allowing soon-to-be parents to be very removed from the conception, pregnancy, and birthing process. Now all that can be "behind the scenes" and all the parents need to do is show up for the bouncing baby final product.

Consumerization of reproduction??

Certainly we live in a fascinating, exciting, and scary time