Silicon Valley’s Plan to Make “Perfect" Babies is... Disturbing | The Deep
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
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The Deep with Erika Ahern is sponsored by Taylor Frigon Capital Management, serving clients at every stage of wealth: from first-time investors to high-net-worth families and organizations seeking full-service wealth guidance. Taylor Frigon provides institutional asset management solutions tailored to the needs of individuals, families and small businesses: https://cvote.it/taylorfrigon
Designer babies have arrived! Hair color, eye color, no diseases and a high IQ... these babies are advertised as a parent's dream come true. But what actually happens is much more sinister: embryo squid games. Erika breaks it down on this episode of the Deep!
0:00 Intro
2:57 Sponsor: Taylor Frigon Capital Management
4:21 Orchid embryo genetic screening process
7:20 The coercion issue: are you a bad parent for not doing this?
13:06 The big question: what is the moral status of the embryo?
20:04 History rings a bill: this looks a lot like eugenics
24:52 This is NOT “protecting babies,” it is discarding imperfect ones
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| 0:00.0 | With the rise of IVF and new reproductive technologies, it is now possible for prospective |
| 0:05.4 | parents to create multiple embryos, test them for a multitude of genetic disorders, and |
| 0:11.0 | even IQ, and select their optimal child before they're even pregnant. |
| 0:16.0 | Silicon Valley Tech CEOs are pushing this technology, claiming to give parents the power to protect |
| 0:22.8 | their future children and give them the best lives possible. |
| 0:27.2 | One such CEO was recently asked some hard questions about her company's product, and the |
| 0:32.7 | vision she laid out for the future of childbearing is shocking. We already live in a world where sex and making babies have been, if I can borrow a marital metaphor, divorced. She says it very clearly. Sex is for fun, orchid, and embryos creating is for babies. It's actually kind of... It's... It's... It's... It's already... It's already... It's already... I didn't want to quote that to you because I thought it was so ridiculous, but go on. I actually don't. |
| 0:54.5 | I think it's already true. |
| 0:55.5 | I mean, already people are having sex much more often than they're having babies. |
| 0:58.5 | Sex is already for fun and not for babies, you know, 99% of the time. |
| 1:03.0 | The hookup, that's for pleasure and intimacy. |
| 1:06.0 | The lab, that's for procreation. |
| 1:09.0 | Sex is messy. |
| 1:10.0 | And baby making has, until now, also been messy, |
| 1:15.1 | largely a game of chance, not anymore. With IVF, knowing what to expect when you're expecting |
| 1:22.2 | became more routine. But the usual old system of prenatal diagnosis has also been a mess, |
| 1:29.4 | scandal after scandal. Remember this? The New York Times in 2022. They found that 85%, yes, |
| 1:37.6 | 85% of non-invasive prenatal tests came back with false positives. |
| 1:50.0 | Mothers were literally being advised to terminate pregnancies, a nice euphemism for abortion, |
| 1:52.4 | based on that kind of accuracy. |
| 2:00.0 | But now, enter Nora Siddiqui, Silicon Valley Rising Star and founder of Orchid. |
| 2:03.6 | And she's promising it's all been fixed. We can manufacture our babies now to specification. Listen to her pitch. We're the first company in the world |
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