As scientists began to develop in-vitro fertilization in the ‘70s for parents struggling to have a baby, experts and media piled on with frightening predictions that almost stopped the invention that has helped millions of families today dead in its track. Subscribe: https://freeth.ink/instant-subscribe-frankenbabies

What do you think? Are today's advances in CRISPR similar to panic about IVF and "test tube babies"?

Watch our documentary about how Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe's efforts to help friends suffering from infertility get pregnant with the first "test tube baby" lead to panic about cloning, frankenbabies, and catastrophe--and then it turned out to be wrong, and the process lead to many grateful families that struggled with ttc (trying to conceive) finally being able to.

WRONG - Episode 2
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