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Around 100 years ago there was only somewhere in the ballpark of 2 billion people on the planet. Today at roughly 8 billion, half the people could disappear and we'd still be overpopulated.
And people wonder why the climate is changing so rapidly. It's not only the fossil fuels and greenhouse gasses, it's also overpopulation.
The planet ain't getting any bigger just because people wanna make a surplus of babies. We already have enough, how about let's allow birth rates to slide a bit for a while?
I think this is worth pursuing not because of population concerns but for the simple fact that child birth is still a fairly dangerous thing to go through for both the mother and child. If we had a viable option for reproduction that didn't require women to go through child birth that could have a profound impact on both women's mortality as well as infant mortality. It also as pointed out in the article could help preterm survival rates.
They've done decoded the human DNA sequence right? Well can't they just make genetically modified women that fixes the narrow birth canal issue?
You know, like utilize our knowledge of DNA to fix known issues as such, while still encouraging natural biological processes?
Tell ya what though, if I found out I was grown in a bag in a laboratory, I'd flip the fuck out. You want more people with psychological issues, go ahead, start growing people in a lab...
You'd "flip the fuck out" if you were born in a bag in a laboratory, but wouldn't flip the fuck out if you were born out of your mom's genetically modified bag? Why force lifelong gene alteration on 50% of the population because you don't feel good about where you might have spent 9 months you'd never remember?