Is This Really the Good News?

I read an article today that explained the scientific discovery of what could be a common cause of male infertility. The basic synopsis is that they found a faulty gene that can directly affect male sperm, making them unable to penetrate the egg.

You would think that the glorified result of such a discovery would naturally be that people who can’t get pregnant now have hope to do so. But instead the article approached it from a different point of view — a point of view that I am sad to say reflects our ‘anti-children’ culture.

“We have identified CATSPER1 as a gene that is involved in non-syndromic male infertility in humans, a finding which could lead to future infertility therapies that replace the gene or the protein. But perhaps even more importantly, this finding could have implications for male contraception.“

Really?

We start to discover scientific evidence that could lead to curing male infertility, and the more important issue is that we now have another method of preventing pregnancy? (This is evidenced even by the title of the article).

Now I know there are legitimate reasons to using birth control, but when our culture is more prone to celebrate the prevention of kids rather than the production of kids, we are traveling down a bad road.

Something seems off.