Why is that the first things that come to people's minds when they hear the term 'reproductive technology' tend to go ilke the above? Because they are still exotic? Or is it a reflection of sex/gender/sexuality anxieties that headlines in the papers provoke? Baby M! Postmenopausal Pregnancy! Heather Has Two Moms! The End of the World (As We Know It) Is Coming!
When I wrote my post, I was thinking of something much more mundane, like condoms, the Pill, abortion, giving birth at a hospital vs. birthing at home with a midwife, etc. In a funny way, though, the replies I got really prove that reproductive technology, both in its mundane forms and how people imagine it to be, makes a lot of difference ideologically, not just materially.
Yoshie