IVF births may triple. But is this really good news?

“Every IVF practice in the world is unintentionally and unwittingly putting back into the womb unviable embryos that don’t make babies,” Professor Fishel said.

Click here to read why scientists’ IVF breakthrough might not be so exciting after all: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/most-exciting-breakthrough-in-ivf-treatment-in-30-years-could-triple-number-of-births-8619841.html

I don’t want to come across as a Neitzschen eugenicist here, and I know I’m touching on a sensitive, emotive subject in which I have no personal experience, but I must question the wisdom of systematically allowing infertile couples to perpetuate infertility genes throughout the gene pool. Surely someone must be able to perceive a future where no one will be able to conceive without assistance? No? Just me then. Even Professor Fishel clearly hasn’t thought this through.

Darwinian dystopia indeed.  See also my post on Rebranding Death for more scaremongering on this topic.