YC Bio Application idea: The Artificial Human Womb Prompted by two considerations. Surrogacy centers throughout Indian and Southeast Asia are shuttering as leg

YC Bio Application idea: The Artificial Human Womb Prompted by two considerations. Surrogacy centers throughout Indian and Southeast Asia are shuttering as legal regulation catches up with a grey market that often lures young unskilled women with promises of life-changing compensation. Only to deliver much less upon delivery of a newborn infant for adoption. Demand among infertile and / or non-traditional first world families for reproductive solutions creates a window of opportunity for innovation and investment. Public perception is evolving. After all, even thirty years ago so called "test tube babies" once condemned by church doctrine, are now seen as a miracle technology. The other belongs more to the realm of sci-fi or speculation. In the event of a mass depopulation event. Either human-made or environmental. It may become essential to rapidly re-populate the earth. Or off-planet colony. Beginning an artificial womb project today, may yield the fruits necessary a generation or two down the road. To be clear, this is an artificial womb for gestating humans. We don't wish to begin with Mus and work our way up. Funding (ask $1M) would be used primarily to attract the team and begin feasibility study and simulation toward a goal of version one prototype.