How to know when you've crossed over to full, freakin' paranoia?? When you read an article like this & immediately envision #Christofascist legislation to grow "abandoned" frozen embryos via artificial wombs so they can become neglected, traumatized kids--oops, I mean properly-educated RW voters. Voila... the next anti-abortion tool. 🤦♀️
Humanity, as well as Earth, don't need this "reproductive machine" envisioned in the classic song, "In The Year 2525"*. Not only the ethical implications are disastrous.
Many richer people will be able to pretty much procreate as they like, combined with existing technologies like #IVF.
Super soldiers of the type of #CaptainAmerica could be mass-produced without much...
AFAIC, birth by a non-mother of this type will, however, also have adverse impacts on the child's immune system, similar to the one's born through a #CesareanSection:
"The results of the studies included indicated that children delivered by cesarean section more commonly developed respiratory tract infections, obesity...
...and the manifestations of asthma than children delivered vaginally." 2)
And the likelihood of serious mental-health issues, just taking as pars pro toto the doubts of many adopted children about their biologic "real" mother.
And then let's get back to Earth 🌎. This planet doesn’t need any more specimen of the type homo sapiens (or its mutations.) The current #ClimateCrisis can easily be attributed to a sole...
...factor, #overpopulation. Earth has been hit by the shockwaves of a #PopulationBomb and is suffering from the explosion's fallout of currently 8 billion people. We have been in #overshoot for decades and are all living on borrowed time, the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity of #Earth. 4)
And then there is also yet another ethical dimension, that of #fascist#eugenics. Who decides who will live or what will be procreated #IVF and then carried to term by an #ArtificialWomb?
#Humanity has already messed around enough with #evolution. Some combinations of the human #genome might simply not be meant to...
...produce offspring. Once again, humankind is attempting to play God.
I hardly ever say this, but no, humanity and Earth do not only need this new technology, quite the opposite is true: any such scientific endeavor to create an #ArtificialWomb should be strictly prohibited and severely punished.
I am under no illusion that my opinion will be influential enough to become mainstream.
Well back in the day us feminists had fierce debates about #ShulamithFirestones proposal linking oppression the to obligatory childbearing. She advocated a #technologicalliberation
Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know
US regulators will consider clinical trials of a system that mimics the womb, which could reduce deaths and disability for babies born extremely preterm. #artificialwombs#bioethics https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02901-1