
Now Louise Brown (who also has a sister conceived by IVF) is a grown woman with a child of her own, and the world in general seems the same. Science, however, continues to expand its boundaries, and in vitro fertilization is no longer a shocking concept.
This raises an interesting question about change and the future. Louise was conceived almost thirty years ago; what will seem commonplace in another thirty years that is considered shocking today? Cloning? Robots? Choosing a baby's gender?
The only thing certain, as some famous person once said, is change. The mystery is why we fear it so much.
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