The scientist who developed the morning after pill, university professor, playwright and writer is 90 years old today and has recently affirmed in an interview with EFE that in the next 30 years there will be a real revolution in everything related to sexual reproduction that will make That prime reproduction without sex.
You read well, Carl Djerassi, The father of the contraceptive pill predicts a future of procreation without sex.
In the interview granted, Dr. Djerassi said that due to the coincidence of the best reproductive years of women with years of professional growth, they are going to delay motherhood towards stages in which reproductive capacity is not at its best.
On the other hand, advances in cryogenization are favoring and making it possible for the freezing of ovules for future use to be an increasingly reliable option used by working women.
“The possibility of freezing eggs opens up new perspectives. And it is an option that will begin to use the most educated and ambitious women, ”he said.
In vitro fertilization today is a method widely used by couples with fertility problems around the world and it is estimated that there are more than five million people in the world born by this method. Carl Djerassi says that in the future this will be one of the methods of fertilization followed by a large number of fertile women.
Both sexes will keep their reproductive material in its moment of greatest fertility and quality: at 17 or 18 years. In this way, women could dodge their biological clock and postpone without risk the moment of being mothers.
I am not the one to discuss the predictions of one of the most famous scientists of the century, but it seems very sad to me the panorama that this man has drawn us. Do not misunderstand me, it seems to me a great advance that one can freeze their healthy ovules and sperm and keep them for the future, I see it well, but as an option not as something common or majority. Why? Because in the end it all comes down to continuing to keep children in the background, to a society increasingly focused on the I in which there is no place for others.
It is easier to develop techniques to become parents from the forties than to design a society capable of reconciling a family or work life. What happens to those who do not feel fulfilled only by working? What happens when our children are 10 years old and we are 50? I don't know what you think, but I like less every day what I see ahead.
