I recently bought a high powered microscope. My girlfriend joked about being able to watch our sex cells combine, but could not figure out any way to dispose of

I recently bought a high powered microscope. My girlfriend joked about being able to watch our sex cells combine, but could not figure out any way to dispose of our new blastocyst that didn’t leave us both feeling very uncomfortable. Now we have an answer! This was not a serious conversation, but the ethical dilemma of such an interesting and relatively doable home science experiment was interesting to explore in theory. Science is truly opening up more and more opportunities to make a real mess of ethics and societies guardrails.