" God forbid ! Procreation as it was in fashion. We declare it a vain joke "(Faust, Goethe)
" What is it to beget, to be begotten, where do children come from ? New methods of procreation are reviving the questions that have always plagued mankind. After Tournant autour de Galilée and Les Variations Darwin, Jean-François Peyret and Alain Prochiantz continue their playful and humorous crossover between the imaginary world of theater and that of science, taking up the question " to be born or not to be born " right where they left off. Looking for a contemporary echo of the conflict that pitted Galileo against the Church, they find it no longer on the terrain of astronomy, but on that of living technologies. The positions seem irreconcilable between a religious discourse that views life as a gift, and a scientific and technical practice that considers living matter to be manipulable. Scientists, doctors, psychoanalysts and anthropologists, as well as jurists, priests and politicians, are called upon to examine these new cradles . Not forgetting the " patients " : parents for whom giving life is no longer a more or less happy event, but a right, and children who don't know, even less than before, where they come from, and claim the right to their history. "
