Scientists have developed an artificial womb that allows embryos to grow outside the body

[Random Variable]

Men redundant? Now we don't need women either



<< Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside a woman's body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless.

Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from women's bodies. Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of these laboratory wombs and began to grow. However, experiments had to be terminated after a few days to comply with in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) regulations.

'We hope to create complete artificial wombs using these techniques in a few years,' said Dr Hung-Ching Liu of Cornell University's Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. 'Women with damaged uteruses and wombs will be able to have babies for the first time.'

The pace of progress in the field has startled experts. Artificial wombs could end many women's childbirth problems - but they also raise major ethical headaches which will be debated at a major international conference titled 'The End of Natural Motherhood?' in Oklahoma next week. >>

 

[gunf1ghter]

I am much, much, much more concerned about cloning than this.

 

[AreaCode707]

Ever read "The Abolition of Man"? Nonfiction, hypothosizing on the point of the human race.

 

[BoberFett]

So a fetus could grow by itself without a female "host"? What does that say about the status of a fetus as a life form apart from it's mother.

Damn those scientists and their attempts to take away a womans right to choose.