I'm not sure if you are serious or trolling... but you seem to be missing the question. The question is not IF you choose to reproduce. It is a given that some people will, and some will not. But in the set that do choose to reproduce, HOW they choose to do so is the relevant question for these discussions.
I was serious. But I guess responding the the legitimacy of the article - certainly to bring reproduction up to replacement/sustainable rates we'll need to supplement biological reproduction. Because that may become negligible. Thus the resistance to technological methods will have to be overcome.
That makes no sense at all. To bring reproduction up to sustainable rates, you'll need to convince people to reproduce. How they reproduce is irrelevant. The fact that birth rates are dropping in some places does not mean that people will always refuse to conceive more babies naturally, nor does it imply that the only way to overcome this is with artificial reproduction.
The birth rate isn't dropping because people don't like natural conception. It's dropping because they're choosing not to have babies. When people want a baby, the vast majority have nothing against the typical technique.
Your insistence that these two unrelated issues are somehow linked puzzles me.
Folks adopt; foster children; raise their nieces and grandchildren. Folks do all sorts of things to avoid the biological necessity of carrying a child. Its not surprising; its scary and hard and dangerous. I'm simply predicting that lots more people will, in future, choose new alternatives as they have often chosen in the past.
Really? People adopt and foster because they either can't have children themselves or because they think that helping children in need is a moral responsibility. People raise their relatives' children because of a sense of familial obligation.
If you think any significant number of people adopt children because they just want to avoid pregnancy and birth, you're the one just making things up. I'm sure you can find a few people who do this, but their numbers are utterly insignificant.
