The central message of the fertility roundups has always been that we have a choice.

If we do want to raise fertility, we can do that. People respond to incentives. That means money, especially if paid up front, and it also means time, lifestyle and respect.

If we do it purely with cash, it would be expensive, but a well-designed version of this would still be net profitable to the state. On the order of $300k per additional live birth would get this done in the United States, depending on how you structure it. This is not money spent, it is money transferred, and it helps the kids quite a lot.

If we do it by dealing with the Revolution of Rising Requirements, by providing non-cash advantages or changing the culture, that’s a more complex intervention, but we have options that let us do far better.

Those who disagree have tried almost nothing, and are all out of ideas.

Selection

Alex Strudwick Young: Today parents can, for the first time, access polygenic embryo testing for IQ and many diseases through a routine test (PGT-A) done worldwide and in 60% of US IVF cycles.
… In many jurisdictions you have a legal right to your PGT-A data under regulations such as HIPAA in the USA and GDPR in the EU.
Herasight has a lot of experience dealing with these bureaucratic processes and gatekeepers. Contact us for help.
Couples with PGT-A data can now access Herasight’s polygenic predictors for IQ and many diseases, including the most powerful predictors for Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and cancers.
Selection on our IQ predictor, CogPGT, can boost offspring IQ by up to 9 points.

Selection will be awesome, it is crazy that we are trying to slow it down rather than encourage it. Yes, this was predictable and we know why people do it, that doesn’t make it not crazy.

Saying ‘up to 9 points’ is weasel wording, but it seems plausible to me to see ~10 IQ point average bumps from selection even at current tech levels.

Surrogacy

Random responses in a Facebook surrogacy group after giving birth are reported to be highly positive, link goes to fully unselected comments.

This aligns with everything I know about such things. You should absolutely presume that surrogacy is a win-win-win deal for everyone involved, so long as neither adult party is out to intentionally abuse the other.

IVF

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Embryo Selection

Embryo Selection