Artificial wombs,able to gestate a foetus external the body, will completely upend feminisms accepted arguments on bodily autonomy – for superior or illHold onto your ovaries folks, and womb transplants are here. Ten UK women have been approved for the procedure,and babies born from donated uteruses could crawl among us as early as next year.
Leaving aside the ethical considerations of womb transplantation, our ability to gestate humans in novel locations is developing so quickly that it’s worth looking ahead to the next development: artificial wombs, and ectogenesis. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com