"Genetic engineering of human beings is illegal," Dr. Myra Kensington said, looking at Ibrahim Williamson and Mona Khalid-Williamson. The well-to-do interracial couple seemed oddly nervous, and with good reason. After various disasters such as major earthquakes, plagues that made the previous decade's Covid look like the common flu, and tsunamis devasted the globe, the human species stood on the brink. Millions of people have died. How much longer would mother nature tolerate homo sapiens to exist?
"We want to become parents," Ibrahim said, his deep baritone voice echoing across the vast office. Tall and handsome, with dark skin and a smooth shaved head, clad in a dark gray suit, he looked very much the consummate businessman. Dr. Kensington always did her homework on her clients, as befitting any medical professional worth his or her salt. Born in Detroit, Michigan, to Jamaican immigrant parents, and educated at the University of Michigan and Northeastern, he was a force to reckon with in the American business world.
"Please, it is our dream, we'll do anything," said Mona, speaking for the first time. The tall, curvy, dark-haired and bronze-skinned, Syrian-born former model looked more like a Hollywood actress than anyone's idea of a housewife. Yet apparently that's what Mona became after marrying Ibrahim. Dr. Kensington afforded Mona an affable smile, and then looked to Ibrahim before reeling in this well-to-do and apparently desperate couple. This was going to be easy as pie...
"I cannot in good conscience break the law, but I want to help you," Dr. Kensington said, and from the relieved looks on their faces, Ibrahim and Mona were ready to do anything she told them. In the olden days, wealthy single men, same-sex couples and others would go to places like Mexico or India to find surrogate mothers to bear their offspring. Surrogate mothers in Europe and North America were far more expensive than the ones from third world countries. Dr. Kensington, an MIT-educated doctor, operates at a far higher level at Kensington Fertility Partners.
"Please, doctor," Ibrahim said, and the burly African American executive nodded at Dr. Kensington while holding hands with his wife Mona. Dr. Kensington licked her lips, and just like that, in the name of money, ethics were tossed out the window, and cutting edge science came into play. Prior to their departure, Dr. Kensington took blood, hair, saliva, sperm and ovum samples from the couple. She would need these bio samples for the outstanding work that she was about to do for them.
Dr. Myra Kensington can be considered unique by any standard. Tall and slim, with brown skin and short, curly dark hair, she was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an African American father and an Irish-born mother. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Myra Kensington specializes in reproduction science. It is a booming industry, as changes in the environment, and human genetic decay, have caused widespread infertility among all populations in recent years. Dr. Myra Kensington is brilliant and beautiful, and although she lacks remorse, she thinks of herself as ethically flexible rather than merely sociopathic. For her high-paying and desperate clients, this means a lot.
