This one is a shocker, straight out of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1931), which was more concerned with the transformation of human biology than George Orwell’s 1984. The technological developments seem to be fast moving to lab-grown human babies, much like lab-grown meat. Human sperm and eggs are grown in a lab, fertilised, and the baby developed in a purely artificial womb. The Japanese are leading the world in this research, perhaps motivated by Japan’s declining birth rate, about which nothing seems to work to stop inevitable population crash. Thus, I suspect there is a eugenic root cause here, but the sales line is that it will aid same sex couples, so this must be all fine. However, the imagine of babies rolling off a production line, is irresistible, and distressing to all holding to the sanctity of life from a Christian perspective.