28 years ago who was born the famous Louise Brown, metaphorically called the first "test tube girl" in the history of mankind. Today it is estimated that there are already more than three million children in the world born through assisted reproduction techniques, as announced at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology held in Prague.
From the first practice of in vitro fertilization 1978, development has led a formidable scientific advancement and improvement in the way that people can be designed.
These techniques which, as everyone knows, are complicated and a relative effectiveness depending on the case, have allowed many families who could not produce offspring have been able to see fulfilled their aspirations to be fathers and mothers.
After tuning pioneer in artificial fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to treat female infertility, in the nineties was an important new step with the microinjection of sperm in the oocytes, which provides the possibility of alleviating male sterility.
All these developments have also allowed to know much better the causes of infertility, a problem that now concerns, according to recent studies, one of every six couples.
Today we know that, the well-known physiological reasons, we must also consider factors linked to human behavior, such as smoking, overweight and stress, among others.
These three billion human beings who literally owe the existence of scientific research and its technological applications allow us to reflect on attitudes with which the company provides and assimilates the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Just go to hemerotecas and see what they said and how they are valued in some cases in 1978 birth of Louise Brown or what was said a few years earlier when Christiaan Barnard in 1967 won the first heart transplant.
So it is good that our relativicemos inevitable tendency to allude to the myth of Frankenstein, even today that open new avenues for intervention on our own evolution.
There is no doubt that we have to give the necessary ethical filters and a strong ability to criticize the possibilities that we are giving ourselves, but always think in those three million people that would not exist if we had not taken the step of accepting , With conditions, which gives us the scientific knowledge.
If not they ask the parents of those three billion human beings who know what life is like. Or easier yet: themselves!
