On Monday, July 25, 2022 at 2:46:32 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> > > On 7/25/2022 2:19 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > > Translating you lament into American English I, the guy, who supplied the > links are: > 1. A work around against abortion seems to be fetal transfer to artificial > wombs for incubation. The work has been successful on sheep in research > labs in Japan & The Netherlands. I am in favor of abortion and > contraceptives. But I see artificial wombs as the next step forward. Its > call medical progress. Reduce the butchery and raise kids. > > > It's that last part that is the bigger problem. When a ten-year old is > pregnant by a rapist, who's going to raise the kid. When a woman with > three young children and a full time job gets pregnant, who's going to > raise the kid. > > Brent > I can only see artificial wombs solving a very limited niche problem for: 1) women who had a hysterectomy but have functioning ovaries or frozen away ova/embryos. This will really kill the in vitro fertilization business in the pro-life states, because they will insist that every frozen embryo will need to be incubated to full term. In fact, if you believe that life starts at conception then IVF clinics kill a lot of "babies". Each IVF cycle harvests about 15 eggs, 2/3 of which are fertilized of which only 1 to 4 are implanted. The rest of the embryos are usually eventually destroyed. 2) Women in early pregnancy who have cancer or some other condition for whom pregnancy might be hazardous. But transferring a live fetus in this way will be a major undertaking with considerable risk to the fetus. In the current legal environment if the fetus dies in the process of transferring to the artificial womb the doctor will probably be charged with murder. The problem is not technology it is public policy and politics. And no number of new technologies will solve that problem. Dirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/36da3aee-3c8b-4bda-89cd-99622585a3d7n%40googlegroups.com.
