History Seen Through a Test Tube

September 2, 2009

The birth of Nayda Suleman’s octuplets unleashed nothing short of a tsunami of negative commentaries on the discipline of Assisted Reproduction in general and in vitro fertilization in particular. We have heard it all. The unregulated Reproductive Industrial Complex. The purveyor of the scourge of high order multiple births. The spawner of conveyor-belt medicine. And that is just for starters. Indeed, much worse has been said about this discipline, a perennial punching bag so many love to hate. Clearly, it’s high time for the cavalry, the absence of an appropriate anniversary or some such excuse notwithstanding. After all, the 30th red-letter day of the birth of Louise Brown has come and gone. But no matter, it is time. So too say the proud parents of the 3 million “IVF babies” in our global midst. (Science Progress)