They sell the application of technologies. So they're willing to take risks that a pharmaceutical company wouldn't be willing to take. Two women may want to be parents of a child, for instance. In the short term, however, these technologies are threatening to both men and women. Historically, men have initiated sex and been in charge of reproduction.
Power rests on equality of social function.
But before we reach that I think we're going to go through a lot of turmoil. Conception involves extremely individual decisions, he said. But these should be decisions made by informed individuals. In recent years, Djerassi has taken a somewhat sneaky approach to informing the public about science, including assisted reproductive technologies. The full version opened in 1999 in London, San Francisco and Vienna, and the BBC is about to record a radio adaptation for broadcast on its world service.