To think gestation outside the body is a fab idea

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Recent research makes the possibility of gestating a baby outside a woman’s body possible. Do we think this is a good idea or not?

Wait until AI via quantum computing gets going on this. It won't be that long. Everything is a commodity now.

How is ai and quantum computing going to replicate the fertilisation and growth of a human?

We don’t even have robots that even come close to the physiological abilities of an adult human, never mind the complicated hormone gradients needed for development.

have they even managed to grow insects from eggs yet?

By working out how to do it. Current computing is akin to knocking rocks together when compared to quantum computers. I don't think people realise just how might AI will be able to achieve once it's possible.

Grotesque. Who needs women now hey

Like the baby cares . .

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The trauma endured by the baby would be immense.

Where did I say the baby “cares”? They don’t have a fucking clue do they?

Doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be grown inside an actual person like every other person that’s been born. If you think some kind of artificial womb can offer what nature can you’re an idiot.

Another "just because we can, doesn't mean we should".

If only we could focus all the money and man power on research to help with actual medical problems that should have disappeared by now.

Terrible. Babies are biologically programmed to be soothed by their mother's movements and heartbeats, their bond is forming from the moment of their conception. They receive immune protection via the blood supply that lasts beyond birth. While this can be upsetting for adoptive parents, its why even those babies adopted from birth can have a degree of attachment related trauma.

Yes like cancer and dementia. But yeah let’s concentrate on making babies artificially 🙄

Yes. Experimenting on growing foetuses in order to deliver a live baby is a wonderful idea!

Can men not leave anything just for women?
This smacks of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Dystopian stuff!

You need to read Brave New World if you want to have a sense of where artificial gestation would take society.

No it seems to they want to invade everything and how dare we be offended by this

Just like surrogacy, where babies are bought and paid for and removed from their mothers, this is a hard hard no from me.

Dreadful idea that would end very badly.

What research?

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I doubt men envy pregnancy and childbirth and all the risks that come with it. Even women struggle with it.

More risk of babies being born and taken by deviant/perverted men too.

I would never ever support the idea of growing a child in a lab ever. However there are quite a number of child born with massive complications and potentially life long disabilities, either because they came out very premature and it couldn't be stopped, or because inducing labour or performing a c-section was the only way to save the child or the mother. While (as a disabled through prematurity myself) I am not saying that these children's lives aren't worth living as they are, but maybe they would have easier lives without those complications? Personally my cerebral palsy was due to a problem that wasn't picked up early enough to use an artificial womb. My friend though had been monitored for pre-eclampsia for some time before it got so bad they HAD to deliver her son at 26 weeks because mum and son would have died if they didn't. If a few weeks before that, rather then praying she'd not become dangerously ill before he was old enough to survive, they had been able to move him to an artificial womb, maybe they wouldn't both have had to fight for life, with him disabled as a result.

No fucking way

Interesting! Most people think its an awful idea.
Having hated with a passion obs and gynae in my training - too much blood/ too much emotion/ lots of unnecessary screaming, I always said to my husband that I looked forward to the time when vaginal birth was unnecessary.
Advantages

1. more equal expectations of parenting from both mother and father. Father is not 'excluded' by not being the gestator
2. Easier to see when fetus is struggling and able to provide timely intervention
3. Great if not able to carry baby yourself - womb problems etc
4. No need for surrogacy.
5. Baby can be exposed to recordings of mum and dad's voice and womb sounds.
6. no smashed pelvic floors, cesearean sections, pain in childbirth etc.

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‘Lots of unnecessary screaming’? Do you struggle with empathy, generally? Because that may explain why you don't understand why babies need mothers to carry them.

Very Brave New World…