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 …

The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important
than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most …

Artificial wombs might be thought of as a way to resolve the abortion debate by enabling the
lives of unwanted prenatal human beings to be preserved. However, recent scholarly …

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 …

There has been considerable discussion about the impact artificial womb technology may
have on debates in reproductive ethics. Much of it has focused on abortion. Some ethicists …

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 …

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 …

This book raises many moral, legal, social, and political, questions related to possible
development, in the near future, of an artificial womb for human use. Is ectogenesis ever …

In a study published in late April in Nature Communications, the authors were able to sustain
105‐to 115‐day‐old premature lamb fetuses—whose level of development was comparable …

This paper explores the concept of ectogenesis in both the partial and the complete forms
and argues for the moral permissibility of artificial womb technology in some restricted …