Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, years ago, with a very interesting outlook on many aspects of life. His society, filled with many unique ways, had a unique and horrifying outlook on science and raising children. Huxley considered children more as experiments and discovered a new way to go about fertilization in his novel. He used his novel to make predictions on how our world would be today. Even though Huxley’s society prefers to raise children from test tubes, he implies that science and technology will take this too far; luckily, the American use of in vetro-fertilization has been used responsibly and for the sole purpose of helping women who deal with infertilization Analysis Portion: In the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning …show more content…
A few more than thirty years ago the first “test tube” baby was born using in-vitro fertilization. “Though fertilization treatments existed before and have since become quite commonplace, that moment in 1978 marked a profound switch in biological medicine. In-vitro fertilization (IVF), developed by doctors Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe, irrevocably changed the way people can and do have babies.” (How Test Tube Babies Changed the World). The growing treatment and trends have allowed many families to make the “impossible” possible. Not only is in-vetro now more of a possibility, but also a gift. Infertility has been an issue for even our earliest ancestors. “Ancient infertility is documented in the Bible as well as in Greek and Roman texts, and stories of certain "barren" queens of Europe have endured from Medieval times.” (How Test Tube Babies Changed the World). Then, there were very few, if any, tools or remedies to rely on when facing problems with infertility. With little knowledge or resources to help, people tried drinking different concoctions, but could not figure out what was going on. As technology grew, FDA-approved fertility drugs were created, but they were nothing like in-vetro