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Why would they need to be heterosexual to successfully procreate.

If the future is designer babies/baby incubation pods. It doesn't matter what sexual orientation the kid is. The parent would have a designer baby, then why would the child eventually not have a designer baby as well?

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You will always need an Egg or Sperm depending on which is missing in the relationship. Also, one of the parents would not have genetic code in the offspring since you can't splice two eggs/sperm together as far as I know.

In Vitro Gametogenesis has been improving lately. 20 years from now, making an egg from a stem cell harvested from a male might be possible.

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