Is it possible to grow human fetuses outside a mother’s womb? The idea that was once a fantasy in the realm of 1932’s novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in which human fetuses gestated inside the test tubes; is no longer a simple LSD trip the author had when he conceived this story, but now part of our reality (Paula Mejia, Fetuses in Artificial Wombs: Medical Marvel or Misogynist Malpractice? page 1). So, foregoing of having test tubes, the scientist has created a womb out of endometrial cells, created by Hung-Ching Liu, that is similar to the female uterine inner lining. With this creation, we could give new life to extinct and endangered animals. Humans can have children without having the need to be fertile and gay couples, along with single men, can have children without the burden of a surrogate mother but the final question; is it ethical?
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Liu wishes to help those that can not have a baby on their own. In a perfect world, that’s what the artificial wombs would be made for. But Warmflash has a different opinion, he explains, that it is possible that we would just move the gestation process outside the human body. And the pro-life believers would force the women to consider moving the baby outside the female’s body, instead of an abortion. Because of the change in the NICU survival limit, the baby could continue to live outside its mother (3). Are people afraid that we could possibly playing God, or that some feminist believe that it could be the end of all women by storing enough ova to where it could last decades before needing more eggs. It 's even possible that men won’t seek other women to have children because they are able to have them on their own though surgical uteri
Liu wishes to help those that can not have a baby on their own. In a perfect world, that’s what the artificial wombs would be made for. But Warmflash has a different opinion, he explains, that it is possible that we would just move the gestation process outside the human body. And the pro-life believers would force the women to consider moving the baby outside the female’s body, instead of an abortion. Because of the change in the NICU survival limit, the baby could continue to live outside its mother (3). Are people afraid that we could possibly playing God, or that some feminist believe that it could be the end of all women by storing enough ova to where it could last decades before needing more eggs. It 's even possible that men won’t seek other women to have children because they are able to have them on their own though surgical uteri