Fertility Rites
Fertility Rites
Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization—Their Hopes and Their Fears
From royal families, to farm animals, to the general public, artificial insemination AI has had many guises. One of these is sperm banking, where people can pay to be inseminated with sperm from men having the traits they desire. But it does not always happen that one gets what one pays for. In vitro fertilization, the other widespread reproductive technology, offers hope, the source of both blessings and curses, to many infertile couples.
Keywords: Artificial insemination, domestication, in vitro fertilization, sperm banking, designer babies, embryo freezing
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