The Artificial Womb: Technology Gone Too Far
From the article:
. . . In a video on bbc.com titled “The World’s First Artificial Womb for Humans,” Lisa said, “I imagine further down in the future an artificial womb could become part of a lifestyle choice for women. Because you don’t have to worry about the morning sickness, changes into your body. I think it could be very interesting for some people like, if you think about gay men. I feel like there’s this narrative in society that there is this ideal of natural reproduction. Natural reproduction is not the only way.”
. . . Corporations and wealthy individuals could easily buy massive quantities of artificial wombs, and babies could be placed in them whose lives otherwise would have been ended through abortion. In states where abortion is legal until birth, this raises a question regarding the legality of ending that baby’s life, since a baby could potentially be kept in an artificial womb for longer than nine months. Big Pharma and the scientific community would be sure to push the boundaries and grow babies in the womb to have their organs harvested and used for experimentation and research. This would inevitably be a multibillion-dollar industry.
From the article:
. . . In a video on bbc.com titled “The World’s First Artificial Womb for Humans,” Lisa said, “I imagine further down in the future an artificial womb could become part of a lifestyle choice for women. Because you don’t have to worry about the morning sickness, changes into your body. I think it could be very interesting for some people like, if you think about gay men. I feel like there’s this narrative in society that there is this ideal of natural reproduction. Natural reproduction is not the only way.”
. . . Corporations and wealthy individuals could easily buy massive quantities of artificial wombs, and babies could be placed in them whose lives otherwise would have been ended through abortion. In states where abortion is legal until birth, this raises a question regarding the legality of ending that baby’s life, since a baby could potentially be kept in an artificial womb for longer than nine months. Big Pharma and the scientific community would be sure to push the boundaries and grow babies in the womb to have their organs harvested and used for experimentation and research. This would inevitably be a multibillion-dollar industry.