{"id":86657,"date":"2019-01-14T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/transhumanist-science-will-free-women-from-their-biological-clocks"},"modified":"2019-01-14T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:42:21","slug":"transhumanist-science-will-free-women-from-their-biological-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/transhumanist-science-will-free-women-from-their-biological-clocks","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist science will free women from their biological clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m excited to share my new article from Quartz on how science will make it safer and easier for a 50-year-old woman to have a child in 2028 than a 25-year-old woman today. #IVG and #DelayedFertilityAdvantage are game changers.<\/p>\n

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Women\u2019s biological clocks drive human conception\u2014and, in turn, human history.<\/p>\n

Biology\u2019s inflexible window of female fertility is generally agreed to be between the ages 18 and 35<\/a>. Any older, and the risk of miscarrying, not getting pregnant at all, or bearing unhealthy children skyrockets<\/a>. When the average lifespan for a woman in the Western world now hovers at around 80<\/a> years old, this means that less than 25% of her life can be spent easily (and safely) procreating.<\/p>\n

Men have the luxury of being able sow their seed for most of their lives with few health ramifications (which is why someone like 72-year-old US president Donald Trump has a 12-year-old child). By comparison, the average woman will only ovulate 300 to 400 eggs<\/a> in her lifetime, which means she only has the same amount of menstrual cycles to ever pursue procreation.<\/p>\n

This seemingly unfair accident of human biology is all about to change, thanks to transhumanist<\/a> science. Genetic editing combined with stem-cell technology will likely make it safer for a 50-year-old woman to have a baby in 2028 than for a 25-year-old woman in 2018. In two decades\u2019 time, healthy 75-year-old women could be starting new families once more.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m excited to share my new article from Quartz on how science will make it safer and easier for a 50-year-old woman to have a child in 2028 than a 25-year-old woman today. #IVG and #DelayedFertilityAdvantage are game changers. Women\u2019s biological clocks drive human conception\u2014and, in turn, human history. Biology\u2019s inflexible window of female fertility [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,412,5,1495,224,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-genetics","category-geopolitics","category-health","category-science","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}