A Brave New World?

不孕/不育

抗不孕/不育：辅助生殖技术

卵胞质内微管注射受精(ICSI): 优异的新生命？
现今，这项现代生殖技术尽管受到许多不孕妇女和其他妇女的欢迎，它还是有令人感到不安的方面。如果进一步对它加以完善，在将来可能会缔造一个选择性生殖的“优异的新生命”。更确切地说，那些梦想着理想孩子的准父母们极可能着手任意选择捐卵者和捐精者，以获得“预期的”遗传品质；即使他们自身不拥有这些遗传品质，他们还是要孜孜以求。而生殖医院为了增加收入，可能在遗传工程技术方面会做出莽撞的尝试，不断地设法创造更完善的人类个体——于是，一个梦魇的危险事业对各种各样的技术滥用敞开了大门。

遗传工程的危险
对人类生殖施加的整体控制可能导致人们去尝试创造“超人”。可是，关于人类的生命体，谁来决定什么是超级的，什么是低级的？  （上图闪烁的文字为“征服种族”——译者注）
The dangers of genetic engineering
The total technological control over human reproduction could lead to the attempt at creating “superior human beings”. But who will decide what is superior or inferior about any human life?

Infertility

Methods of Overcoming Infertility：Assisted Reproductive Technology

Inter-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection(ICSI): A Brave New World?
As welcome as the modern reproductive technology is to many infertile women and women today, it has a worrisome aspect. If perfected even further, it could, in the future, create a "brave new world" of selective reproduction. That is to say, prospective parents dreaming of the ideal child might become able to select donor eggs and donor sperm at will for "desired" genetic qualities, even if they themselves do not possess them. Fertility clinics, hoping to increase their income, could make ever bolder attempts at genetic engineering, trying to create the ever more perfect human being - a nightmarish enterprise open to all kinds of abuse.

[Course 2] [Description] [How to use it] [Introduction] [Conception] [Pregnancy] [Birth] [Infertility] [Infertility in Men] [Infertility in Women] [Overcoming Infertility] [Contraception] [Abortion] [Additional Reading] [Examination]