Given the current state of most women in the western world, I'm all in favor of it. Maybe I could of had children.
The_Mournival
This idea can be killed stone dead, by using feminists. If the idea is pushed that if real wombs are not needed then neither are female foetuses as no doubt the gender can be chosen. So male only babies needed... That won't fly with the feminazis. Eggs can probably be artificially created as well if we are at the point of creating artificial wombs so no need to harvest.
Newsflash: you don't HAVE TO. I'm saying this as a female. Although having children is the highest and noblest purpose of life, you can choose whether or when to have one.
This technology is very dangerous in ways we are not wise enough to appraise. Couple this with the ability to produce a zygote from non-gamete cells and who knows what long-term effect this will have on the human race. Gene editing technology compounds the danger. Absolutely frightening.
Not new, in the past century they had done using an algae (agar agar) as utero and nanaged to give birth to complex animals as goat. The algae is a good substitute for the útero, and the process of reproduction is totally independent. The algae serves only in a way to hold the placenta and exchange nutrients and gases. No news here... It can be a good strategy if the humans face extinction.
Matthew Blankenzee
I've heard that this has already been tried. Do you really think that it was only now that they thought of birth pods? In all the experiments, the fetus died at 20 weeks. There seems to be something where the fetus has to be in the female body or it can't survive. I guess they're working on that now. Sad.
The question of, "who hurt you?", whilst seemingly helpful and empathetic, really misses the point and appears more like a negative judgment of AC/DC's character. This question doesn't bring anything useful to the table of discussion: it makes the topic focused on a personal experience, inviting AC/DC to defend his character and life choices rather than share more about his stated position.
We have a growing schism between men and women in the West and it stems from far further than simply "personal differences" that have destroyed relationships. I'll let you research possible causes on your own.
Date if you want to (I choose to), but understand that neither "side" can expect 1950s-style relationships, because neither are adhering to those tenets.
I digress.
Harvesting children ex-utero raises serious concerns for the future of humanity, regardless if our political allegiances or ideological affiliations.
Paraphrasing Jurassic Park: "We were do concerned with wondering if we could do it, that we never asked if we should."
For more detailed speculation on what that world could look like please (re-)read Brave New World as it paints a vivid picture that helps put into context some of the issues we might face as a result of it.
We have a growing schism between men and women in the West and it stems from far further than simply "personal differences" that have destroyed relationships. I'll let you research possible causes on your own.
Date if you want to (I choose to), but understand that neither "side" can expect 1950s-style relationships, because neither are adhering to those tenets.
I digress.
Harvesting children ex-utero raises serious concerns for the future of humanity, regardless if our political allegiances or ideological affiliations.
Paraphrasing Jurassic Park: "We were do concerned with wondering if we could do it, that we never asked if we should."
For more detailed speculation on what that world could look like please (re-)read Brave New World as it paints a vivid picture that helps put into context some of the issues we might face as a result of it.