Interesting essay on the liberating qualities of the artificial womb. The use cases are fairly intuitive - becoming free of the biological clock, being able to bear children when prone to miscarriages and other risky conditions and to enjoy motherhood without the physical labors that are needed to get there. The author says:
The very idea of using artificial wombs to replace some or all stages of gestation reflects, for instance, an assumption that foetuses and gestating persons are in fact separable. While this doesn’t mean that artificial-womb technology necessarily entails the foetal container model, current rhetoric within this debate captures the spirit of the view well: for instance, by likening the uterus to what the reproductive biologist Roger Gosden calls a ‘clever incubator’ in Designing Babies (1999).
Once you separate "foetuses and gestating persons" then there is little to differentiate the two contributors male and female that went into making that foetus. They are each their own entity and probably won't feel like they are belong together. There would be much better ways to liberate women than this.
The very idea of using artificial wombs to replace some or all stages of gestation reflects, for instance, an assumption that foetuses and gestating persons are in fact separable. While this doesn’t mean that artificial-womb technology necessarily entails the foetal container model, current rhetoric within this debate captures the spirit of the view well: for instance, by likening the uterus to what the reproductive biologist Roger Gosden calls a ‘clever incubator’ in Designing Babies (1999).
Once you separate "foetuses and gestating persons" then there is little to differentiate the two contributors male and female that went into making that foetus. They are each their own entity and probably won't feel like they are belong together. There would be much better ways to liberate women than this.
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