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

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 …

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 …

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 …

It is not difficult to imagine a future in which ectogenetic technology will be available to
gestate for the full term an embryo conceived through the use of in vitro fertilization. In other …

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 …

At some point in the future–perhaps within the next few decades–it will be possible for
foetuses to develop completely outside the womb. Ectogenesis, as this technology is called …

In this commentary, I will consider the implications of the argument made by Christopher
Stratman (2020) in 'Ectogestation and the Problem of Abortion'. Clearly, the possibility of …

The benefits of full ectogenesis, that is, the gestation of human fetuses outside the maternal
womb, for women ground many contemporary authors' arguments on the ethical desirability …

A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and
ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the …