You're right in saying this would impose a terrible burdened on children who are conceived as mere experiments.
But the ethical problem goes way, way beyond that in the sense that humankind has become its own experiment. And as C.S. Lewis said over 60 years ago, that means really that a small group of wo/men (the experimenters) rule all the rest (the experiments), none of them recognizably human.
Altogether fitting that the project is emerging in England, where they have actually realized Lewis' prophecies with their "Human Fertility and Embryology Authority" under their "National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence" ---"NICE" ---
Have you read Lewis' "That Hideous Strength"?
You just can't write social parody anymore.
oh my goodness...I did read that, but I must have been a teenager. Wasn’t it part of the space trilogy?
I guess when you’ve managed to forget the plot of a Lewis book, it’s high time to revisit it.
Thank you!
[Have you read Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength”?]
It’s been on my todo list for a long time, thanks for bringing it up.
Is that where he wrote about this:
[a small group of wo/men (the experimenters) rule all the rest (the experiments), none of them recognizably human.]
?