Genetically Edited Babies: Why We Will Stop Having Sex to Reproduce

November 28, 2018

(Newsweek) – By the end of this century, about 157 million people will owe their lives to assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, donor eggs and surrogacy. Denmark now has the highest proportion of babies born through assisted reproductive technology in the world, with an estimated 10 percent of children conceived this way. In 2017, the European nation passed a law granting access to state-funded IVF regardless of a woman’s marital status or sexual orientation.