Wasn't the intention that it was all about cloning and gene splicing?
"Despite objections there will be technological advances which will allow anyone to have a baby, whether these will be ethical is another matter. Cloning has already been mentioned. Things that were impossible in the 70s and 80s are routine IVF now so I have confidence this will change."
Because some people think that humans manipulating genetic tissue that was not intended to produce new humans is real progress... despite the ethics of this action being well explored.
This is the exact same supreme confidence that we see people post about implanting uteruses in males and carrying an infant to full term and producing an infant that is healthy.
We are constantly assured this is just around the corner. Forgetting that at the moment and for decades it is simply not ethical to allow an embryo to survive past 21 days (iirc) outside of a fully functional uterus inside a woman. And not one scientist has worked out how to transplant a reproductive system with all the connections to female processing centres needs to produce the naturally produced substances needed to build a human.
Some people think this is progressive.