THE BABY BUSINESS: Fertility

Episode #110

Be fruitful and multiply. Since the Garden of Eden, man has been driven and challenged by his culture and society to procreate. Fertility has reflected the will of civilizations to insure their survival. Now fertility is a $2 billion a year industry and it is only going to get bigger in a society where people seek perfection and control over biology. Advances in technology have given hope to couples and created new industries, such as the trade in eggs and sperm, only imagined a generation ago.