Consider a future in which human babies are created in a test tube. What happens when women no longer have to physically bear children? Who wins? Who loses? Who takes artificial wombs to a far away planet to create a colony of super-beings?
This debate is coming for us sooner than later. Just last week, the New York Times reported a new study in which a handful of premature babies born at 22 weeks—two weeks earlier than what is currently considered the point of viability—survived. “The Supreme Court has said that states must allow abortion if a fetus is not viable outside the womb, and changing that standard could therefore raise questions about when abortion is legal,” Pam Belluck writes for the Times.
What do you think? Would you sign up for a uterine replicator? How much would you pay to have your baby incubated outside a human body? What does this future look like to you?
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