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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...
Why? What difference does it make? I'd have no problem with that. In fact I'd think that's pretty cool. Would you freak out if you found out you were delivered via cesarian section? I'm not really seeing how this is much different.
I would love to see us do that and in fact I think that's the direction we need to go if we're going to survive as a species. The big thing we need to watch out for is that we don't start developing into a monoculture. We need to maintain a certain amount of diversity or else we open ourselves up to being wiped out by a single pathogen or disaster.
Ultimately our medical knowledge is getting too good. Genetic disorders that would have been death sentences 200 years ago are just mild inconveniences now and so those genetic defects are starting to proliferate. We need to utilize genetic tech to fix those obvious problems, while also not going overboard and classifying unusual variations as defects to be fixed which would ultimately result in the monoculture problem I discussed previously.
Have you forgotten how much school children torment other kids over not having both parents and a 'normal' family? Now imagine going to school and everyone tormenting you over being a test-tube/bag baby?
Do you really think that kid is gonna grow up without losing his/her shit somewhere along the way?
Who the hell is getting bullied for being a test-tube baby?
We had all this shit in the 70s before the first IVF baby, and to the best of my knowledge, bullying over it has simply never been a thing.
Have you never heard of the very common meme, "Daddy went to get a pack of smokes and never came back"
Yeah, image that meme on steroids, "You don't even have a mother?"
... Have you honestly, genuinely never heard of test tube babies? Do you not realise we've had them since the 70s?
Think about that, then realise we had all this shit about "but the poor children" back then, for that, and none of it ever materialised because nobody gives a shit or ever knows the difference or cares at all.
It's no different than giving birth by c-section, or indeed vaginally. There is no difference.