New stork rising? Women's roles and reproductive changes

Anyone who has not been living in a remote cave will know that reproduction in the past decade has been changing rather dramatically. These changes have occurred on several fronts. Writing as a sociologist, I shall emphasize the social aspects of these changes, looking first at some of the changes in and challenges to reproduction today, and then at some of the social implications of the advent of "high tech" reproduction, including the questions of who controls and who benefits from the new reproductive technologies. Finally, I shall speculate on what the future might hold, in terms of the social implications of changed reproduction.