"The British magazine Nova ran a cover story in the spring of 1972 suggesting that test tube babies were ‘the biggest threat since the atom bomb’ and demanding that the public rein in the unpredictable scientists.”
One of the more extreme warnings was that babies so conceived would not even have souls. Ridiculous! But then again, looking around, are we so certain they were wrong?
As a point of historical reference and an indication of just how far the Overton Window has shifted just within living memory, I remind everyone:
In Vitro Fertilization Was Once As Controversial As Gene Editing is Today: The scientists who pioneered it were regarded as pariahs, even within their own universities (Smithsonian Magazine 9/27/2017)
One of the more extreme warnings was that babies so conceived would not even have souls. Ridiculous! But then again, looking around, are we so certain they were wrong?