But what if you break up with your partner, and you're 40, don't have a child, and really want one, but would like to find another partner first? Or what if you went through some shit and became financially less secure? Not everyone is in the position of having a life partner whose love can make a child with them and…

I'm not angry. I fucking talk like this, yo. I'm saying, you needed to open the chest years ago, and now you don't. So while you need to stimulate ovaries with drugs that have terrible side effects and shit, and while the process of withdrawing the eggs is painful, this likely will improve greatly in the future.

I know. Women are born with 2 mil eggs, down to 700 thou by puberty, all are stuck in prophase of meosis I. At the start of the follicular phase, they push on to metaphase of meisosis II where they stay until possible fertilization. I have a detailed knowledge of female reproductive physiology. When I said "produce…

Whatever man, anthropology isn't a science.

Dude, your comment implies that dude is being ridiculous for asserting that IVF will be immensely popular. I disagree with that and used sarcasm the same way you did. What the problem is?

Expensive, time consuming and invasive will all be improved by scientific advances. What is not likely to improve is the fact that people will want/need to delay having kids in order to do other shit.

Man, fuck fifty shades. Fuck all the shades.

I don't think he is advocating so much as making a prediction. You may find it crazy etc., but there's a reason he has done all this awesome scientific shit in his life, and we're on the internet arguing with each other and struggling to grasp simple concepts.

You realize that he was a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford, was instrumental in developing the contraceptive pill, and he was married 3 times. You should give him some more credit.

You've made my point for me. Impalanon is awesome, yay, and this demonstrates that contraceptives have come a long way. Similary, after IVF comes a long way, many of it's drawbacks will likely diminish.

Jesus Christ, no. Look, an artificial uterus is an entirely different thing altogether. Think about the function of the uterus during pregnancy and how the fetus gets its nutrition and think about how difficult that would be to replace.

I think it was Cosby who did the cancellation.

Not lying makes him worse? I don't understand.

Yeah, possibly.

"a paternal-age effect exists, but is very small in comparison to maternal-age effect in Down syndrome prevalence". From the paper about Down.

That is the difference between you and the author, and between you and people with vision in general. You only see what it is now, he sees what it can be. 50 years ago you needed a team of heart surgeons, an anaesthetist, nurses and 5 hours of theatre time to treat a coronary artery occlusion. And you'd be left with a…

Well, surgeons have removed kidneys through vaginas, and laparoscopy gets more and more futuristic every day. It's the way of science, shit is going to get so much better.

Fuck me with a serrated edge, I'm sorry. I was discussing implanon earlier and that's where my mind went. Whoops.

There is incontrovertible evidence that maternal age affects the chance of developmental abnormalities far more than paternal age. Men also don't even stop making sperm, but women stop making eggs relatively early in life. Yes, this is not fair, but it is true. Deal with it.

That's because you're soft. It's actrually not that bad. You get a little nick, then they slide the rod in under your skin.