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The 2nd Sexual Revolution | Martin Varsavsky | SU Global Summit

Name: The 2nd Sexual Revolution | Martin Varsavsky | SU Global Summit
Uploaded: 2017-07-20T19:54:52+00:00
Duration: 1 min 48 s
Channel: Martin Varsavsky
Description: Martin Varsavsky (speaker) argues that modern delayed childbearing has pushed many people into an "infertility boundary": historically (the 1970s) women…

20 Jul 2017 · 2 min

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Martin Varsavsky (speaker) argues that modern delayed childbearing has pushed many people into an "infertility boundary": historically (the 1970s) women averaged ~3 children by age 35 but today average ~1, and fertility drops drastically during the 30s. This has generated a large IVF industry, but Varsavsky asserts that roughly one-third of couples trying naturally and one-third of IVF patients fail due to late timing. He presents the "prelude method" — freezing sperm and eggs while still fertile and creating embryos later — as a proposed solution to reduce infertility, congenital illness, miscarriages, and pregnancy terminations following prenatal genetic testing.

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Three (speaker claim: "in the 70s, by the age of 35, women had three babies on the average").

One (speaker claim: "and now they have one baby").

The speaker claims about one-third fail to conceive by sex alone and about one-third of people paying for IVF also fail (speaker assertions).

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I think having children is the most important challenge of most people's lives. We were designed to have babies as teenagers and in our early 20s, in the 70s, by the age of 35, women had three babies on the average, and now they have one baby. We pushed ourselves into an infertility boundary when people lived until they were 45. It kind of makes sense to have your babies at 17, but now we live at over 80, but we're still forced to have babies in that window. Fertility drops drastically during the 30s. This has resulted in a boom of the IVF industry. But the sad thing is, not only a third of the people who have sex to make a baby fail, but a third of the people who pay their life savings to an IVF clinic also fail because they show up when it's too late. The prelude method basically involves freezing sperm and eggs. When you are fertile, then they should make embryos when they're ready to make a baby. So this method fights infertility, fights congenital illness, fights miscarriages, and fights clinical abortions that are done because right now people are having sex, but then they use an IPT or a certain type of genetic testing that is done on women while they're pregnant. And many times it's pretty sad, and they're told the sad news that their baby is having a serious problem, and they choose to abort. So the prelude method fights these four things.