#artificialwombs — Public Fediverse posts

I've spent this afternoon doing a deep-dive into human cloning and artificial wombs for my latest writing project.
Bloody fascinating!
#WriterLife #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #HumanCloning #ArtificialWombs

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

📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Ethics of Socially Disruptive #Technologies: An Introduction', edited by Ibo van de Poel, Lily Eva Frank, Julia Hermann, Jeroen Hopster, Dominic Lenzi, Sven Nyholm, Behnam Taebi & Elena Ziliotti.

Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to #nature. For example, #socialmedia challenges #democracy; #artificialintelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility of creating #artificialwombs may affect notions of #motherhood and #birth. Some have suggested that we address #globalwarming by engineering the #climate, but how does this impact our responsibility to future generations and our relation to nature?

This book shows how technologies can be socially and conceptually disruptive and investigates how to come to terms with this disruptive potential.

This title is available at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0366

Listening to the #Reason #podcast today (by sheer coincidence!):

“People are going to be really mad about the #ArtificialWombs, and there’s going to be a decade of attempts to outlaw that. It’s not just going to be the womb wars — we’re going to end up with the WOMB Act: the ‘Women Only Make Babies’ Act.”

https://reason.com/podcast/2023/05/30/banging-our-heads-on-the-debt-ceiling/

In vitro gametogenesis (expected to happen in 5–25 years) will give #women yet another tool to increase their reproductive options. (Not so much men — gay or straight — as a woman are still needed for gestation.)

Today, women don’t need a committed partner, or even a one-night stand. They can freeze their eggs and postpone maternity. They can get regular eggs from a donor for free (or the best ones paying money). They can get regular sperm from a donor for free (or the best one paying money; ie pick and choose a “father” online). They alone decide about abortion. They can have their partners raise a child that is not their own. They can give birth alone, leave “name of the father” blank on the form, and nobody even bothers to find out whether there might be an unwilling father out there, or questions the merits of deciding to raise a kid without a father.

Men can’t do any of that.

Talk about “reproductive rights”.

An artificial womb will the be biggest advance in favour of #men. It might be the great equalizer. Gestation will cease to be a burden, a risk, and a privilege exclusive to women. Imagine a single man becoming a father, and nobody even asking him “who’s the mother?” or “who donated the eggs?” (Sounds heartless, sad, creepy? It’s just what we have now, only with the sexes reversed.)

#ArtificialWombs are not expected to arrive any time soon, though.

#feminism #MRA