How many pregnancies are planned, and how many are "accidental?"
I guess it would all depend on the technology. But whether people plan
their pregnancies around the tax season or their new-age hippie health
classes is irrelevant to the question: creating a system of artificial
iron wombs eliminates the emotional effects for a woman of having a baby
growing inside of them. Some may be totally skeeved by this idea; my
fiancee (we have a baby, BTW -- she's 6mo old, 7 in early August)
however commented that she misses things like the kicks, the movement,
etc. Of course I cannot relate to that on any level; being a male I have
nothing in my life experiences to compare it to. And to get proper
feedback, that question should be postulated to both pre-pregnancy, and
post-birth women.
I also think the idea of iron wombs cheapens the enture reproductive
process. That is my purely emotional hippie liberal opinion...
Damon.
Some people have c-sections because they can schedule them round
their yoga, or because they need to fit childbirth into a certain
period of the financial year for tax or government incentive reasons,
or to replace the uncertain risks of childbirth with the calculated
risks of an operation.
Given reliable artificial womb technology financially on a par with
or not substantially more than the cost of childbirth, the risks and
convenience mean that it would be taken up. How many, not sure, but
it would be widespread.
Wonder if there are any surveys on this.
Charlie
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