Old women and New babies

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If this trend is not scary, what else is?
IVF is already 30 years old, growing healthier, more successful and more popular. It provides the best mean of having a child especially by working couples in big cities who delay their marriage or are childless.
If human embryos can be made from skin cells and grown in culture (thus devoid of moral issues), people can have any number of children at any age.
Unfortunately, only those specialists who possess the knowledge, the know-how, and the technology will have the full control of the process; others will be subjected to their whims and idiosyncrasies. And precisely, this is the threatening part.
If a few power crazy experts decide to monopolize the special skills and determine to create thousands of children on their own terms and conditions, the world could be in trouble. I would not want to imagine the consequences.
Would you?
(Tan Boon Tee) Access : Making babies: the next 30 years : Nature News

Yes We Can :‘I just called and y’all said you had it’

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Doctors, nurses and midwives at the clinic were among the first to feel the impact of the surge, as demand for prenatal appointments began to overwhelm the staff members at the beginning of the summer. As women poured in to the facility, which now has pastel streamers with hearts dangling from its windows, the medicine cabinets began running low on progesterone, used to treat early labor.
Col. Flavia Diaz-Hays, chief of maternal child health services at Womack, estimates that one-fifth of expectant mothers are active-duty soldiers who get nondeployment status for the birth of their child. On Aug. 1, in response to requests from mothers and military health care providers, the Army extended nondeployment status for mothers from three to six months.
Soldiers have noticed the boom among their ranks.....
At Army Base, Stork Landed With the Airborne - NYTimes.com

Note:
About Storks- The Jews were forbidden by God to use the stork for food; perhaps this was because it lives upon such animals as frogs, fishes and serpents.

The stork is a bird of passage; it spends the summer in Holland and other countries in the north of Europe, but flies to a warmer climate before cold weather comes. They seem to have a kind of agreement among themselves about starting on these long journeys; and for a fort-night before they are ready, they may be seen collecting in great numbers-then all take to their wings at once.

This explains a verse in the eighty chapter of Jeremiah, "The stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times;" that is, her times of going to a warmer climate or returning.