The basis is a trial regarding a US state using artificial wombs in order to inflate it’s population and take over seats in the US House of Representatives.
The basis is a trial regarding a US state using artificial wombs in order to inflate it’s population and take over seats in the US House of Representatives.
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this raises ethical concerns about body autonomy and citizenship. artificial wombs could disrupt traditional family dynamics and impact women’s roles in society. also, it questions how we define personhood and rights. careful consideration is needed for such policies.
this raises deep ethical questions about bodily autonomy and the potential for exploitation, especially for marginalized communities. while tech can be beneficial, we must ensure policies are inclusive and protect human rights. population control through artificial means could easily lead to an imbalance of power and resources. it’s crucial to have diverse voices in these conversations to ensure equitable solutions and prevent potential abuses of power.
If they do this, it will become an arms race to create as many artificial wombs as possible, resulting in millions of children with no parents and no support systems.
The dead would line the streets before long.
Creating artificial wombs that can carry a fetus to term would require research and understanding of the female body which the Trump administration banned on its list of research no no words. I’m not worried lol
The evangelicals will just call them angel babies and put them in Christian madrasas turning the babies into cannon fodder. Someone will have a dream that the that it was divinely inspired directly from God to provide boy solders to the churches. Girls will be fuck maids or less now that they have no more use.
Population only matters during the census. An eo could change the census process to exclude them.
A lot of people never read “Heretics of Dune” and it shows. Once women are “lesser than” there’s no “need” for artificial wombs.
And who will care for these children? The foster care system that’s full of abuse? Schools that won’t even give a poor kid a cheese sandwich? Churches that just exist to pay for a pastors new Porsche?
Brave New World prequel, perhaps. In Huxley’s novel, artificial fetuses are in use and actual pregnancy and birth by a woman is considered disgusting. Women are on birth control and sex is purely recreational, unless you’re one of the “savages” left on Earth.
This was a wild read, and I appreciate you posting it OP. It definitely made me think about the novel and how these kinds of court cases would be the lead up to it.
I feel like I’ve seen this movie, and it didn’t end well
Sayaka Murata’s dystopian novel Vanishing World touched on this…
It would be better to implant unwanted fetuses in men. Then they could experience the joy of pregnancy and birth, and I’m 100% sure abortion would remain unprotected.
Okay this is the second time that something from this website has come up and it has the same problem that the last post does. Citizenship is not what makes someone count toward the states population for the purposes of apportioning house seats. They have a weird fixation on the idea that because fetuses are not citizens they have no rights. Which totally ignores the fact that non citizens do actually have a lot of rights. Stateless people also have rights. This is a very odd thought experiment with deeply troubling implications when there are much easier and less problematic avenues to make the argument that abortion should be legal.
I think abortion should absolutely be safe and legal. I do not however base that judgement in the fact that fetuses aren’t citizens because I don’t think you should be able to kill non citizens.