I wonder if advances in embryo selection might reduce fertility. At the moment I think one of the few things keeping the birth rate up is people thinking of it as the default. But embryo selection seems like it could interrupt this: a clearly superior option might make having children naturally less of a default option, but with using embryo selection novel enough to seem like a discretionary choice, and therefor not replacing it.
I wonder if advances in embryo selection might reduce fertility. At the moment I think one of the few things keeping the birth rate up is people thinking of it as the default. But embryo selection seems like it could interrupt this: a clearly superior option might make having children naturally less of a default option, but with using embryo selection novel enough to seem like a discretionary choice, and therefor not replacing it.
Interesting thought. I wonder if there are historical analogs we can look to for evidence on this—I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
Perhaps surrogacy might be such an analogue?