Just when people were starting to see how bad the Middle-Class Family is, it gets taken to a whole new extreme:
New book by a Stanford professor: The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction Henry T. Greely amazon.com
About the above book: metroactive.com
So harvesting female gamete cells is difficult. But doing it this way, they won't even need them. They won't need male gamete cells either. So I guess people won't be trying reverse vasectomies anymore. And actually, they really don't even need men.
"...when assuming that the service will only be available to the rich and that those who choose to use it will actively select for tall, athletic boys and blonde, waif-like girls."
This is like Social Darwinism coming full circle, enforcing middle-class cannons. And it is the beginnings of what was predicted by the Sci-Fi writer Bruce Sterling, the human race splitting into two. ( I know Dougster will love this, but I hope that no one else does :) )
"Sterling wrote a series of stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe: the solar system is colonised, with two major warring factions. The Mechanists use a great deal of computer-based mechanical technologies; the Shapers do genetic engineering on a massive scale."
The Middle-Class Family never would have even existed, if it were not allowed to exploit children. It turned children into private property.
But now, we will have parents who want to play God. Those with this kind of hubris, should not be allowed to have custody of children. And they absolutely must not be allowed to create them in these kinds of ways.
We must stop this, and not just by outlawing it. We must stop it using Any Means Necessary!
SJG

Humans to be phased out by robots soon enough.