Evolution's Pregnant Pause Summary

Rifkin’s article “Evolution’s Pregnant Pause: Artificial Wombs,” appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 2002, it successfully ask the question is artificial wombs waging a war against natural childbirth and women? This war has worried me because its purpose is to undermine the medical benefits of this technology. Traditionally women give birth, in which women are the principal caregivers of the children. Reading, Rifkin’s article he questions the parental responsibility and the role of women. The goal for artificial wombs is not to marginalize women nor replace their womb, but to create a society where women can experience every option of motherhood. Feminists in Rifkin’s article worry the artificial wombs will be another way to marginalize women. They have proclaimed this technology as threating male dominants, but this technology is a breakthrough for society. Also, this technology gives 6.7 million infertile women in the United States according to the census a chance at motherhood. Unlike, the novel Brave New World, were world controllers are all male, and they enslave their citizens. Lenina, who is a principal character in the novel, has no …show more content…
Feminists believe the artificial womb will rob women of their role as the progenitor. The artificial wombs are offering a safe and healthy environment to conceive a child. Not like Huxley’s Brave New World where there is no bearing of offspring and a one-world government is in power. Artificial wombs are giving childless couples more options, ending childbirth problems, women with damaged uteruses and wombs can have babies. There will be no premature babies. These mechanical wombs will provide a drug and alcohol-free environment. It will give homosexual couples the option to have their offspring. The novel Brave New World is about conditioning and manufacturing humans this technology is about providing assistance and