Background Breakthroughs in animal studies make the topic of human application of
ectogenesis for medical and non-medical purposes more relevant than ever before. While …

In this paper, we identify some key features of what makes something a disease, and
consider whether these apply to pregnancy. We argue that there are some compelling …

Whether from manmade or natural causes, future humans will be faced with events
potentially leading to their own extinction. Strategies thus need be devised to ensure human …

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 …

Assuming that securing the long-term survival of humans and Earth life is a valid goal, we
briefly compare the strategies of building standard space colonies, such as on Mars, and …

Gale and Wandel (2021) describe my paper in IJA (Edwards, 2021) as having crossed the
border of scientific plausibility into the realm of 'science fiction.'By science fiction, they …

In his important paper “Just Better Utilitarianism,” Matti Häyry reminds his readers that liberal
utilitarianism can offer a basis for moral and political choices in bioethics and thus could be …

In the future, full ectogestation–in which artificial placenta technology would be used to carry
out the entirety of gestation–could be an alternative to human pregnancy. This article …

Michal Pruski and Richard C. Playford argue that if partial ectogenesis technology becomes
available then it would undermine Judith Jarvis Thomson's defense of abortion. Thomson …

Medical and technological breakthroughs opened the way for ectogenesis as a way of
carrying to full term foetuses that would otherwise have been lost to death. Subsequently …