A few decades from now, it might become possible to gestate fetuses in artificial wombs.
Ectogestation as this is called, raises major legal and ethical issues, especially for abortion …

Significant scientific progress has been made toward artificial womb technology, which
would allow part of human gestation to occur outside the body. Bioethical and legal scholars …

The contemporary philosophical literature on abortion primarily revolves around three
seemingly intractable debates, concerning the (1) moral status of the fetus,(2) scope of …

Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become
a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first …

In this commentary, I consider how Giulia Cavaliere's arguments about the limited reach of
the current justifications offered for full ectogenesis in the bioethical literature apply in the …

Successful deployment of “artificial womb technology (AWT)” is anticipated within a decade
or so. In the case of “partial” ectogestation, in vivo gestation precedes fetal transfer to an …

Many people believe that the abortion debate will end when at some point in the future it will
be possible for fetuses to develop outside the womb. Ectogenesis, as this technology is …

Ectogenesis is the scientific term for the construction and growth of an artificial uterus that
will enable a child to be gestated in vitro. Research into this advancement has been …

Bioethics scholarship considering the possibility of gestating an embryo to full term in an
artificial womb (ectogenesis) often overstates the capacities of current technologies and …

The potential benefits of an alternative to physical gestation are numerous. These include
providing reproductive options for prospective parents who are unable to establish or …