Baby Making has been driven by the market

This is a great article by Gregory Pence at the University of Alabama. He argues that:

“Wholly unintentionally, the U.S. ban on federal funding jump-started innovation in assisted reproduction. One byproduct of the ban was that the National Institutes of Health and ethics committees had no mechanism for regulating research in these private clinics. In Europe, assisted reproduction has always been subject to strict government oversight, and as a result, few innovations occur there.”

If we follow this reasoning, the NIH is a problem.