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I see some concerns with using humans to incubate babies as well. During her 2 pregnancies, my wife permanently lost most of her sense of smell, had a lower le
by wcoenen 6y ago
I see some concerns with using humans to incubate babies as well.
During her 2 pregnancies, my wife permanently lost most of her sense of smell, had a lower leg clot, and apparently a clot in her hip. That last one was only discovered a few years later when it turned out that the cartilage in her left hip joint was completely gone and she needed a hip replacement at a young age.
- staticman2 6y agoArtificial wombs would be great if they work well, but what are the odds that the initial designs will work well when actually tested on humans?
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoIf it works well with other large mammals, what do you think would be the problem with humans? We aren’t that different.
- Sporktacular 6y agoThat we aren't that different is why there's an ethical problem.
- staticman2 6y agoUnless the prenatal environment for a human is the same as say, for a gorilla, so that a gorilla could be a surrogate parent for a human, I wouldn't expect the animal testing to be an acceptable way to know how a human baby would turn out. I also imagine it's pretty difficult to do mental health screening on a gorilla, let alone extrapolate to whether a human baby would turn out physically okay but mentally not so great.
- konjin 6y agoWho cares? We abort babies for no reason at all today if they are in a woman. We should be able to do the same if they are not in a woman.
- rory 6y agoWhat if the problems aren't clear until the child is born? Or a toddler, or a teen? There's still a lot we don't understand about prenatal environment and how it contributes to the attributes someone has as an adult.
- DC1350 6y agoThe child always has the option of suicide if it really thinks it would be better off not existing. This is fine for the same reason that not aborting kids with downs is morally fine.
- kaybe 6y agoOne of the best arguments for allowing abortion is that we do not force anyone to risk their integrity and life for another person, which is what pregnancy is. This argument won't work anymore.
- konjin 6y agoYes, it will be wonderful to have equality of the sexes again. If women don't want to pay child support they should just not have unprotected sex, like men. Or we do the sane thing and stop treating clumps of cells like people.