Artificial Wombs Will Spawn New Freedoms

In this article, Olson and Pericier discuss how the artificial uterus changes human reproductive behavior. As time goes by, the authors think that the concept of eggs (artificial uterus) is used for human reproduction rather than hatching female fetuses. This process is called ectoderm development, meaning that the development of the artificial uterus can maintain the entire duration of the fetus without the body of the woman. (Smajdor, 2007) Advantages for potential parents, the possibility of gender equality, the balanced role of parenting, and the potential resistance to the use of the uterus.

Editors of bioethics are pleased to announce a special issue on exogenous ethics (artificial uterus). Recent developments in animal studies and human embryology have shown that human use by the artificial uterus may become a reality in just a few decades. Partial external embryogenesis (removing the human fetus from the body of the woman and making it premature in the artificial uterus), for example, a serious ethical question including a question about how to affect abortion rights To raise. Embryo in the artificial uterus from complete embryonic development, conception to birth has a more serious ethical influence and may force us to reconsider human reproduction. The purpose of this special issue is to summarize the best papers and consider the ethical problem of partial or complete ectodermal development (or both). More information can be found here. The editor welcomes short comments on short suggestions and summaries by email to joona.rasanen@ifikk.uio.no.

Technologies necessary to support the artificial uterus and make designer's baby already exist. By legal regulation, Cambridge researchers conducted embryo research for only two weeks only outside the uterus. Moral problems currently limit the impact of modern technology. After all, in the world where the wealthiest people live longer, enjoy healthier and more intellect, ethics decides who can access these life-changing technologies and when to deploy It is a big consideration when doing.

In my opinion, the faster the technology, the more we can commission a pregnancy to the artificial uterus. Indeed, the world after pregnancy may not be so far. Last year, we succeeded in demonstrating to an animal an artificial uterus to support severe premature infants. Researchers at Philadelphia Children's Hospital put six lambs in a "bio-bag" that imitated the uterus, but these lambs were delivered with a caesarean section equivalent to 23 weeks. Lambs seem to be developing normally - and their mothers can drink wine without being embarrassed. (I'm sorry.)