Just when you thought raising kids couldn’t get any more complicated Newcastle University Biologist Karmin Nayernia has apparently created artificial sperm. According a report in last week’s Daily Telegraph the role of men could become entirely redundant. Kind of brings a whole new twist to the concept of absentee parenting.

I don’t know about you but I reckon this about takes the prize for lunacy! As if we don’t already have enough single parent homes? And with no dad to pick up the tab for child support I guess the government would be expected to pay out even more welfare dollars to unsupported kids or should I say artificial embryos.

I’m amazed there is someone out there funding this research. I’d rather see funding to fast-track a cure for Cancer, MS or Leukaemia.

Let’s help the living, we have enough challenges looking after normal human beings without creating artificial ones!

While Professor Nayernia’s stated aim is to one day help infertile men have children, it opens up Pandora’s Box. A woman could, in theory, be both mother and father to her own child and at its crudest, we now face the possibility of a world where women do not need men to make babies.

So what’s next? Cloning of radio personalities? One Holmsey and Flan for Breakfast is probably enough!

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