Catholic thinkers generally agree that artificial womb technology (AWT) would be
permissible in cases of partial ectogenesis to assist severely premature infants, but there is …

Medical technology often is employed to reinforce and sanction existing social roles. In this
context, society's acceptance of fetal surgery sanctions women in their role as gestators and …

Five years ago, remarkable animal experiments on artificial womb technology (AWT) at
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) got us thinking about the ethical for premature …

Louise Brown celebrates her twelfth birthday in 1990; the world's first “testtube baby” is not a
baby any more. In the years since her birth, reproductive technologies that initially seemed …

Our ability to alter the course of human development ranks among the most significant
changes in modern science. But even if we can do such things, should we? Under what …

CONCLUSION To sum up. The development of AWT has given rise to a proliferation of terms
to describe its subject. This quest for new terminology is driven by considerations related to …

Anne Charnock foretells the coming era of motherless births depicting the future of
reproductive technologies and its myriad consequences for homo/heteroparents in Dreams …

The ethics of creating human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over
abortion and embryo research; literature on'self-creation'and discussions of procreative …

In recent years, there has been a great deal of public debate about the creation of so-called
'designer babies'. This somewhat sensationalist expression is in many respects …