Scientifically a novel idea, but will this really be the future?

“Carl Djerassi, one of the inventors of the Pill (before he became a Stanford professor, playwright, and sci-fi novelist), has suggested that all forms of birth control will eventually become obsolete and the Pill “will end up in a museum.” In his imaginings, girls and boys will deposit their eggs and sperm in a reproductive bank to be frozen at 20 or so and then get sterilized. They’ll want to do this because genetic diagnoses of embryos will become increasingly sophisticated, and no one will want to risk having a child with birth defects, let alone a child of an unpreferred gender or one predisposed to a hairy back. When these people want to have children, either one or six, at 30 or 60 years old, they’ll make a withdrawal from the bank.”

Really is this how our grandchildren are going to think about having children? I think it seems sad. I am all for science, and fertility treatments, and the use of science to improve our life and health. The idea that people in the future are going to sterilize themselves at 20, and then pick the most perfect of their embryos to have the most perfect of children with the gender they want, is just so sad and unnatural to me.

This seems to somewhat link more to the idea of "having it all", that we are all supposed to buy into. I'm sorry I don't buy into that idea, and I think we should all put it to the wayside. It's not easy to "have it all", and I guarantee that the people you talk to who supposedly "have it all" don't think they do. Life is really hard. The idea that in the future one way we are going to have it easier to have it all is to only have genetically perfect children, I don't like it.