Artificial womb technology and the significance of birth: why gestatelings are not newborns (or fetuses)

EC Romanis - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019 - jme.bmj.com
In a recent publication, I argued that there is a conceptual difference between artificial womb
(AW) technology, capable of facilitating gestation ex utero, and neonatal intensive care …

Artificial womb technology and the frontiers of human reproduction: conceptual differences and potential implications

EC Romanis - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2018 - jme.bmj.com
In 2017, a Philadelphia research team revealed the closest thing to an artificial womb (AW)
the world had ever seen. The 'biobag', if as successful as early animal testing suggests, will …

Ethics considerations regarding artificial womb technology for the fetonate

FR De Bie, SD Kim, SK Bose, P Nathanson… - The American Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Since the early 1980's, with the clinical advent of in vitro fertilization resulting in so-called
“test tube babies,” a wide array of ethical considerations and concerns regarding artificial …

Artificial wombs, birth and 'birth': a response to Romanis

N Colgrove - Journal of medical ethics, 2020 - jme.bmj.com
Recently, I argued that human subjects in artificial wombs (AWs)'share the same moral
status as newborns' and so, deserve the same treatment and protections as newborns. This …

Subjects of ectogenesis: are 'gestatelings' fetuses, newborns or neither?

N Colgrove - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019 - jme.bmj.com
Subjects of ectogenesis—human beings that are developing in artificial wombs (AWs)—
share the same moral status as newborns. To demonstrate this, I defend two claims. First …

Conventional revolution: the ethical implications of the natural progress of neonatal intensive care to artificial wombs

PS Wozniak, AK Fernandes - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Research teams have used extra-uterine systems (Biobags) to support premature fetal
lambs and to bring them to maturation in a way not previously possible. The researchers …

Willing mothers: ectogenesis and the role of gestational motherhood

S Kennedy - Journal of medical ethics, 2020 - jme.bmj.com
While artificial womb technology (ectogenesis) is currently being studied for the purpose of
improving neonatal care, I contend that this technology ought to be pursued as a means to …

Neonatal incubator or artificial womb? distinguishing ectogestation and ectogenesis using the metaphysics of pregnancy

E Kingma, S Finn - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A 2017 Nature report was widely touted as hailing the arrival of the artificial womb. But the
scientists involved claim their technology is merely an improvement in neonatal care. This …

Of machine born? A feminist assessment of ectogenesis and artificial wombs

M Sander-Staudt - Ectogenesis, 2006 - brill.com
Ectogenesis poses the end to the fact that up to this point in history, all human life has been
“of woman born.” Scientists predict that within the next 30 years, artificial wombs will become …

Could artificial wombs end the abortion debate?

C Kaczor - The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary …, 2005 - Springer
If there is any contemporary debate that is intractable, the debate about abortion is. The
intractability arises particularly on account of those who oppose all abortions and those who …