What is the main conflict in Origin in Death by Nora Roberts?

Origin in Death by Nora Roberts (writing as J.D.Cobb) is a fictional tale that deals with a very topical subject. Dr. Wilfred Icove Senior is a man of science and medicine. Devastated when his pregnant wife is killed, he continues to raise his son alone while beginning his research into a branch of science that would put an end to such misery and loss forever. Icove, together with another geneticist and scientist - Dr. Jonah Delecourt Wilson — and later with the help of his son, create a medical aberration they refer to as 'Quiet Birth'. This procedure takes all of the guess work and chance out of the genetic soup that is usually the foundation for reproduction and replaces it with a sterile and infallible method of cloning that allows them to make children to order. If a mate is your desire, Icove and Wilson's Academy of horrors can provide one - at substantial cost of course. Beginning with subjects of all kinds, they strive to eliminate all imperfections, and then train and educate their subjects until they are ready for Placement.