I don't know when I'll have time to sit down and talk about eugenics in TLT as a whole but here's A Thing Of That:
Vat wombs!
In Eugenics Culture we call this Ectogenesis. It was proposed by the British eugenicist J.B.S. Haldane in 1923 in Dedalus; or Science and The Future. He predicted that by 2073, the vast majority of human births would occur outside human bodies in artificial wombs, using eggs collected from ovaries preserved outside the body.
This was later taken up by eugenicist Aldous Huxley in Brave New World as his "hatcheries," and scientists were like yeah we could probably do that and their work influenced the development of IVF and artificial wombs, which turned out to be REALLY HARD TO MAKE ACTUALLY.
Because English eugenics did not have a Red Scare in the way that the US did in the early 20th century, some of their eugenics movement still had Free Love Socialists in it, and one of the arguments for ectogensis (and the use of donor gametes!) was that it allowed people to separate sexual pleasure from reproduction, allowing people to form sexual relationships with anyone they liked while still orienting reproduction to the good of the race.
There were Free Love Socialist (and Anarchist) eugenicists in the US but they got, like, arrested and deported and executed and made into jam and fired into space and whatnot. So in the US there was lessss of this and it was mostly (a) wealthy white women who wanted to become single mothers and were like ACTUALLY I am doing it for the good of the race which is very chill of me and (b) more conservative eugenicists who thought Huxley was neat but didn't have any particular Free Love feelings.
Artificial womb technology is still developing and it's Ethically Threatening for a host of reasons that are mostly "how many ways can this be used to fuck over people who would otherwise have a natural pregnancy or who would otherwise have NOT participated in reproduction?"
The presence of vat wombs in House culture indicates that John has solved these problems, like many of his ethical problems, with hand waving about the risks to others! Had to happen, very sad, big picture and all that!!
