Years ago, I was talking to a pro-lifer and he said he believed that pro-lifers should be investing in womb technology. I had no idea what he meant.
He said “science is on our side” which is something I agreed with. There’s a reason pro-aborts don’t want women seeing ultrasounds or understanding fetal development at all. It’s because the science is on our side. Babies are human.
But this guy went on. He said he foresaw a day where, if women wanted to abort their child, they could have the baby removed but put into an artificial womb where the baby would be adopted after growing in the artificial womb until they could breathe on their own.
I thought about this for a moment and became kind of excited. I thought that perhaps artificial wombs could end abortion. I remember driving home and it hit me. Something like this image came into my mind:
What seemed like a fine idea a moment before suddenly became a horror, like something out of Huxley’s worst nightmare.
Firstly, how would a baby thrive in an artificial womb without being in their mother, feeling her heartbeat, and feeling her love? A mother is more than a uterus. There are so many processes going on between a mother and a baby in her womb that we couldn’t possibly hope to recreate that. There’s just too much we don’t know. And what about that connection between a mother and a baby?
Without that, the baby might survive but thrive? There are so many unknowns. But that’s not stopping us from moving forward.
Science and Stuff reports that “The 2017 BioBag was an enormous breakthrough in artificial womb technology. The scientists behind the work grew eight fetal lambs for 105 to 120 days — about equivalent to human fetuses at 22 to 24 weeks of gestation. Then in March 2021, another milestone was achieved. Israeli scientists were able to grow mouse embryos for up to eleven days inside artificial wombs. What is remarkable about that achievement is that 11 days is over half of the full mouse gestational term.”
Many believe we are within ten years of a functioning artificial womb for humans. A company called EctoLife is working to make this a reality. Watch it:
Oh, and don’t forget, all this comes with the bonus feature of genetic editing. You’re not just going to create any ol’ baby in a lab. No. Through some trial and error you get to pick the best baby and then on top of that you can tweak their genetic code to make them less prone to disease, more athletic, healthier, smarter, blonder.
Now, we’re talking about bypassing the womb altogether.
And then, get this:
Once a baby reaches full maturity? According to the video, the birth process can be “done with just the push of a button,” which will cause the faux amniotic fluid to drain from the growth pod. The impact on humanity could be profound.
Each year, around 300,000 women die from pregnancy or complications shortly afterward. But that’s not all. “We know that the constraints of the human uterus and pelvis have acted as a brake on the size of the human brain and skull. If freed from the need to be ‘born’ in the normal way, we might open the way for a new evolutionary trajectory,” Dr. Anna Smajdor, Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oslo, noted in a previous interview.
So, to be clear, we’re talking about a future in which babies are born not from women, but from machines that replicate the uterus.
This technology has the ability to wipe out the biological family. There’s no need for a mom and dad when technology can do the job of a mother and a father when it comes to conception. And then the artificial womb does the job of the mother’s womb. We will be yet another step removed from biological necessity.
Who will be in charge? Who will oversee this? If the government needs a surge in population can it just order one up?
I am frightened of a world that has children conceived in a lab, genetically edited, never having felt the warmth of their mother in the womb, and set out into a world without a mother and father. That should give us all pause.
You’re talking about a world where women don’t have to attract men and men don’t need women to create a family. What kind of world are we inviting? A loveless world of genderless beings not needing one another?
This is coming. Pray. Pray as often as you are able.
HT Big Pulpit
December 14, 2022 at 12:05 pm
Only one word comes to mind, EVIL!
This is straight from hell!
Heaven help us!
December 14, 2022 at 1:57 pm
All this was in Brave New World.
December 15, 2022 at 2:11 pm
I have spent twenty years researching the relationship between the biological sciences and the words of Scripture. Science has shown that the human heart is able to able to communicate with every cell in the body in four ways: 1). Electromagnetic radiation, 2). Pulse waves — especially from the beating heart, 3). Neurologically, and 4). Bio-chemically (hormones etc.). This communication has been discovered to affect every cell in the body—for better or worse. Additionally, sound waves produce an additional layer of effects. Remember the impact Mary’s voice on John while still in the womb. Revealed to St. Gertrude by St. John the Evangelist, when he laid his head on Jesus’ chest at the Last Supper, John explained the pulsations of Jesus’ heart penetrated to the very depths of his soul. Lastly, the science of fetal microchimerism reveals to us that many of Jesus’ stem cells entered into her body (and vice versa), likely remaining alive until her death. These stem cells do not die. They can differentiate into any type of cell (e.g., a beating heart cell). Let that sink in for awhile. Artificial wombs would be a DISASTER.
December 16, 2022 at 10:48 am
I note that you worry that women won’t have to ‘attract’ men but not that men have any burden now to be attractive to women. That phrasing confirms my longstanding opinion that you think women are inferior to men. Men get to pick among women clamoring for their attention while offering women NOTHING in return.
December 17, 2022 at 12:10 pm
“Men get to pick among women clamoring for their attention while offering women NOTHING in return.”
If you feel so strongly about it then don’t clamor for a man’s attention. No one is forcing you to. Do what you think is best for yourself and let other women do what they think is best for them.
December 17, 2022 at 8:07 pm
What do men give women in your world?
December 19, 2022 at 7:36 am
Unfortunately you are so blinded by your feminism, that all things male are bad that you would not recognize a good man if he was standing right in front of you. In your already angry state of mind where you think this is all about a power struggle between men and women, that one has to be the superior you cannot see that your personality is a total put off to men who wish to find a woman they can share their life with instead of being put down on every point and not be in a contentious but sharing relationship.
Unfortunately, though you will disagree, birth control has allowed men of weak moral character to take advantage of women and not worry about the consequences. Women wanted and still want equality with men, but what they took from men is their crudeness, crassness, aggressive manner. Look in the mirror Karen. Everything you hate about men you allowed it to happen. You should have put a stop to it but equality was the utmost importance to you and your feminist. Now you got it except the characteristics you took from men you thought would make equal and powerful were the worse character traits men have.