NHKBS Premium Humanience "Genome Editing": Is it a Technology to Create New Human Beings?

"Humanience" is very pleasant because you can see how the MC, Yuji Oda, 'understands/is moved by its content' (although Oda's film was not quite right for me).

In contrast, I found the guest commentators on "Science ZERO" to be unimpressed and not understanding the content, which irritated me and made me stop watching the program.

That aside.

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Now, in this issue of "Genome Editing," they are also talking about "Designer Babies.

I think I am less resistant to human cloning and designer babies than most people.

However,

- Foster a child with DNA 100% identical to your own (genetically, 100% your own)

- Design, give birth to, and nurture a child with the talents you desire.

Even I can understand that these are major ethical issues (at this time).

In fact, the Chinese researcher who enforced this was convicted.

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I understand that the birth of life through such "artificial editing of DNA" and the "test-tube baby" that has now become the norm (mainstream) in fertility treatment cannot be discussed in the same stage.

Nevertheless, IVF births now account for 1 in 16 births.

Two per school class have been born in test tube babies.

If we had continued our thoughtless taboo about "test tube babies," 50,000 of the 800,000 newborns in 2022 would not have been born.

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Currently, the government is talking about "countermeasures against the declining birthrate in the "other dimension," but if you are going to use the word "other dimension," why not try the followings?

(1) Relaxation of regulations on human somatic cell cloning

(2) Large R&D expenditures for artificial uterus equipment

(3) Large-scale introduction of reproductive R&D funding for same-sex couples

Of course, it is necessary to build public consensus on (2) and (3) above, as well as to take legislative measures.

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I have little resistance to making this country of Japan a grand demonstration field.

If Japan could establish and provide legal protection for the technologies listed in (1) through (3) above, I believe that immigrants from all over the world would come to Japan in droves, and the labor population problem would be quickly solved.

Well, it will not be possible in the foreseeable future (in 100 years) in our country, which is in a mess over matters as minor as married couples' separate surnames and my number card.