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A Womb Away From Home

May 12, 2015

What happens when women no longer have to physically bear children? Who wins? Who loses? Who takes artificial wombs to a far away planet to create a colony of super-beings?

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This ‘artificial womb’ is like science fiction—but uteruses aren’t out of a job yet – Brokya April 26, 2017 at 8:55 pm

[…] replace a good old-fashioned uterus. And this isn’t a sign that we’re getting close to totally artificial gestation. Back in 2014, futurist Zoltan Istvan predicted that “ectogenesis”—a.k.a. gestation […]

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This ‘artificial womb’ is like science fiction—but uteruses aren’t out of a job yet April 27, 2017 at 12:52 am

[…] replace a good old-fashioned uterus. And this isn’t a sign that we’re getting close to totally artificial gestation. Back in 2014, futurist Zoltan Istvan predicted that “ectogenesis”—a.k.a. gestation […]

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This ‘artificial womb’ is like science fiction—but uteruses aren’t out of a job yet – ADC Voice April 30, 2017 at 9:12 pm

[…] replace a good old-fashioned uterus. And this isn’t a sign that we’re getting close to totally artificial gestation. Back in 2014, futurist Zoltan Istvan predicted that “ectogenesis”—a.k.a. gestation […]

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GOODBYE SEASON FIVE, GOODBYE 2019 | Flash Forward December 12, 2019 at 11:02 pm

[…] A Womb Away From Home (artificial wombs): In October, Dutch researchers were given a $3.22 million grant to develop a prototype device that could eventually lead to an artificial womb. In response, ethicists have been asking questions about, well, the ethics of this whole thing. […]

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