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| | The End of Pregnancy |
 | | Thousands of surrogate mothers' wombs have already been used to gestate someone else 's fertilised embryos. | | | As shocking as these developments have been, there is still another biological bombshell waiting in the wings - and this one provides the context for all the others and changes forever our concept of human life. | | | Scientists like Kuwabara are attempting to fill in the time between the beginning and end of the gestation process - the critical period where the foetus develops most of its organs. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0117-05.htm
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| | Artificial wombs here by 2010, researchers claim Betterhumans > Blog Post |
| | Artificial wombs define the next natural step in our future which holds promise to raise the physical and emotional quality of human life. | | | Artificial wombs replace placenta, umbilical cord – everything necessary to bring an embryo to term. | | | Artificial wombs could bring an aborted baby to term, thus saving its life. |
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http://www.betterhumans.com/Members/futuretalk/BlogPost/821/Default.aspx
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| | Why not Artificial Wombs? |
| | We will meet the pioneer researchers working on the creation of an artificial womb in NYC, but also interview couples, women and men, about their personal experiences of pregnancy, what it means to them. | | | The natural womb is in fact a very dangerous place, and not merely because of smoking or alcohol. | | | To be true, there are unwanted pregnancies, and at some level, some children born of these deeply sense their unwantedness -this seems to be an accepted notion among persons in the inner healing minstry. |
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http://www.godspy.com/issues/Why-not-Artificial-Wombs.cfm
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| | Reason |
| | Artificial wombs and the beginning of human life | | | However, Liu's research could yield more immediate practical benefits, such as helping develop a method for jumpstarting pregnancies outside of women who are infertile due to damage to their uterine walls. | | | So what pro-lifers like Hager hope (and what The New Republic apparently fears) is that safe, effective ectogenesis, by making the process of embryonic development visible, will push Americans who favor abortion rights to change their minds. |
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http://www.reason.com/rb/rb082003.shtml
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| | open book: The artificial womb draws closer |
| | In further womb research by Dr Liu’s team, mouse embryos were grown nearly to term in artificial wombs but, as in the Japanese experiments, the newborn animals did not survive. | | | Essentially all of pro-choice theory is built around the idea that even if the fetus is human the mother's right to control her body trumps the fetus' right to life. | | | The experiment was ceased at six days’ gestation, because of legal limits on human embryo experimentation. |
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http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2005/08/the_artificial_.html
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| | JIMMY AKIN.ORG: What To Do About Frozen Embryos |
| | This would be counter to the dignity of a person's body and the natural course of events in which an embryo is meant to be gestated, whereas a truly artificial, non-organic womb or incubator would not be undermining the dignity of the human body and would be morally licit. | | | As meaningful as birth is as a human moment for the parents, it doesn't seem to be a moral imperative that children detach from the mother by natural processes only. | | | As I understand it, no matter what happened in the process of conception, the life generated from conception is in the image of God, and the means of effecting that conception do not impinge on that. |
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http://www.jimmyakin.org/2005/05/what_to_do_abou.html
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Spare womb |
| | While a few feminist philosophers view a futuristic artificial womb as a sort of liberating device – writer Shulamith Firestone says it would allow women to avoid the health risks of pregnancy – there is no shortage of opponents to the idea. | | | After the matrix dissolved, Liu placed a human embryo onto what was, in effect, a kind of artificial womb. | | | Ever so slowly, medical technology is developing the means to carry an unborn child to term outside the mother's womb. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040225-9999-mz1c25womb.html
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| | Salon.com Technology The future of reproductive sex |
| | "The issue with artificial wombs might not be so much in taking a fetus to term, but in using them to save very premature babies," says Richard Ashcroft, a medical ethicist at Imperial College, London. | | | For now, the sheer difficulty of perfecting the techniques necessary for fully artificial reproduction means the ethical issues are little more than talking points, says Eppig. | | | Further, some warn we may one day be able to incubate such fetuses outside the body, as described so memorably in Aldous Huxley's dystopian classic, "Brave New World." Work to develop such "artificial wombs" is already under way. |
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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/05/19/artificial_wombs/print.html
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| | Artificial wombs - www.ezboard.com |
| | 'It may also turn out that artificial wombs provide safer environments than natural wombs which can be invaded by drugs and alcohol from a mother's body. | | | 'We hope to create complete artificial wombs using these techniques in a few years,' said Dr Hung-Ching Liu of Cornell University's Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. | | | In this way Liu is extending the time an embryo can exist in a laboratory before being placed in a woman's body; Kuwabara is trying to give a foetus a safe home if expelled too early from its natural womb. |
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http://p201.ezboard.com/fjabberwoqfrm3.showMessage?topicID=37.topic
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| | Halfbakery: dna transfer + artificial wombs |
| | with artificial wombs, no woman would ever need to endure any heath risks, pain, sickness, bedridden states, detrimental effects to the body, et cetera, caused by pregnancy and childbirth. | | | It's hard to measure how much a foetus may 'learn' while in the womb, but depriving one of all external stimulii is unlikely to produce a mentally balanced child. | | | You could have a clinic where they have a bunch of babies, and people who want to adopt the baby could go and get the baby inplanted in their womb, or wait until the baby's born, and then take the baby home. |
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http://www.halfbakery.com/lr/idea/dna_20transfer_20_2b_20artificial_20wombs
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| | Artificial Wombs - Popular Science |
| | Members of the Raelian cult—who also claim to have cloned a baby—announced in 2003 that they had developed a Babytron (their word) that could incubate human embryos from conception onward. | | | In theory, an embryo could survive outside its mother’s body from the moment of its conception. | | | “But,” Murray continues, “if someone insists on an artificial womb, if they want to create a biologically related baby so badly that they are willing to risk having that baby be severely deformed, it’s hard for me to see the moral good in that.” |
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/futurebody/dc8d9371b1d75010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/4.html
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| | CBHD: The Advent of the Artificial Womb - Scott B. Rae |
| | Far from the idea that the womb is a neutral place where the unborn child is simply housed until birth, studies in prenatal psychology suggest that what occurs in the womb has a formative influence on who the child becomes. | | | What kinds of harms might come to a child if, in the first nine months of his or her life, there was no bonding, no relationship, and no prospect of connection between mother and child? | | | Copyright 2003 by The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity |
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| | A hypothetical question - artificial wombs - 4Forums.com |
| | In this way, it would no longer be an issue of a woman's body being forcibly used to carry a fetus. | | | Forced surgery would not be an option if I had anything to do about it. |
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http://www.4forums.com/political/showthread.php?t=5612
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| | Catholic World News : Artificial Womb Points toward "Dehumanization" |
| | He observed that scientists do not know how the psychology of the child is shaped by the months in his mother's womb, but the "artificial womb" would obviously not provide any support. | | | Bishop Sgreccia, the vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said that the latest step in the process of artificial human reproduction was a double offense, "because in this case, human procreation takes place outside the sexual act, but also outside the woman's body." Such an approach, he said, would be disastrous. | | | By that means, he said, parents "can give the give of life in a more human and natural manner." |
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| | Breakthrough! #21 (1997-08-04) |
| | Tests on humans, in the womb and out, are set to begin within a year, and the researchers hope to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration for routine use within five years. | | | They have developed a method for growing replacement organs for newborns while they are still in the womb. | | | The procedure is tricky and requires balancing delicate laboratory work with microscopic surgery inside the womb. |
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http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/BT/21.html
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| | Mensactivism.org Just When Ya Thought It Couldn't Get Any Weirder |
| | If fetuses can hear and benefit from things like classical music, and their parents calm voices then maybe their might be unforseen harm caused by not having that 24/7 very intimate closeness of human beings in a real live womb that you can't get in a laboratory. | | | How do we know that a baby in a real womb does 'not' need that human bond to even come out psychologically "normal". | | | Mens rights/womens rights, whatever, what about the babies natural right to have that connection to it's parent inside a womb that nature provided. |
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http://www.mensactivism.org/articles/02/11/28/016208.shtml
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| | In loco parentis |
| | The life of her baby no longer need depend on her body. | | | The developing baby could, at any point, survive outside the woman's body. |
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| | Gene Expression: Fake uterus |
| | I suspect the more practical (and also more readily accepted) advances will come in the form of treatments for extremely premature infants, which will gradually come to approximate an artificial womb. | | | And, while it may sound like the stuff of science fiction--evoking images of the "decanted infants" in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World--researchers estimate that ectogenesis could be a reality within five years. | | | I wonder what country Dr. Liu will continue the research in. |
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| | Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome |
| | VATICAN CITY, FEB. 11, 2002 (Zenit.org).- A Holy See aide expressed concern at news of an "artificial uterus" that its builders said was able to temporarily support human embryos outside a woman´s body. | | | If what psychologists have always said is true -- which I believe: the emotional state, the subconscious, is developed in the prenatal phase in the exchange with the mother -- then in this case the dehumanization is paradoxical and serious. | | | Q: Is it possible to dedicate energy and funds to research that respects the human being? |
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| | Birth in an artificial womb may be possible in 25 years |
| | Critics of such a development, however, warn that a mother might have problems bonding with her baby. | | | The Brave New World scenario would mean that women no longer needed to carry a baby from conception to birth. | | | Birth in an artificial womb may be possible in 25 years |
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| | Technology will change the abortion debate [Free Republic] |
| | While its true that there will continue to be medical advances, the legal questions have mostly been settled a long time ago. | | | I think chemically-induced miscarrage (RU-486) will still be around, as fetuses will likely have to be a certain age before they can be successfully transferred to an artifical womb. | | | I have been asked "What is an artificial womb?" so I thought I'd provide a couple of links: |
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| | Ectogenesis |
| | Ectogenesis is a controversial process in which a fetus would grow in an artificial womb separate from the mother's body. | | | Although most parents and doctors would consider this a success, ethicists warn that advances like these may one day lead to controversial reproductive technologies. | | | Scientific advancements in neonatal medicine may one day lead to the development of a fetus outside the womb. |
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| | Artificial womb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An advantage of such a system is that it would allow the fetus to develop in an environment which is not influenced by the presence of disease, environmental pollutants, alcohol, or drugs which the mother may have in her circulatory system. | | | Such research is being conducted by Dr. Yoshinori Kuwabara at Juntendo University in Tokyo. | | | Although the technology does not currently exist to raise an embryo from conception to full development outside of a human body, the possibility of such technology raises questions with respect to cloning and abortion. |
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| | Life Issues Institute, Inc. |
| | I don’t mind telling you, I’m not at all in favor of this kind of messing around with human life. Clearly, Dr. Liu, in the above experiment, directly killed a six-day-old human, and there will be more of this if these experiments continue. | | | Futuristic stuff? Certainly is. Will they succeed? At this point, all anyone can say is only God knows. What you have here is a mixture of artificial insemination and an artificial womb. This seems to pretty well cut out the traditional function of a father and a mother. |
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| | In vitro fertilisation: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | This is directly related to the practice of placing multiple embryos at embryo transfer. | | | Another major complication, related to the use of ovarian stimulation is the development of the ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. | | | See also artificial insemination; fertilization; reproductive system; surrogate mother. |
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| | Vidyya Medical News Service - Today in Vidyya |
| | It might seem like something out of a science fiction novel: pregnancy without morning sickness, weight gain, stretch marks or labor pain. | | | Ethicists and researchers alike concede there are still many issues that must be hashed out. | | | So the introduction of an artificial womb for humans remains unfathomable to many doctors. |
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| | But what will it do to our legal and social definitions of what is male and what is female if a man can be transplanted with an artificial womb also? | | | Will this redefine the social and legal meaning of what is man and what is woman? | | | On one hand this is will be a boon to women born without a womb or who have had a hysterectomy. |
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| | Commentaries by Michelle Hibbert |
| | Therefore, the argument would follow, the artificial womb may represent the only mechanism by which some persons can or will choose for exercising their constitutional right to choose how to beget children. | | | Artificial wombs may also represent the only means of begetting children in cases where the intended parents of the resulting children are single men, single women, or even gay or heterosexual couples who are unwilling to hire a human surrogate to act as the host for their genetically related or adopted embryo. | | | Neither is the use of an artificial womb to gestate children deeply rooted in this country's tradition or in the conscience of the people. |
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| | Artificial Wombs & Abortion |
| | In such a situation, traditional mothers would have no right to an abortion, even though their fetus could not be transplanted to an artificial womb. | | | Others believe that the Court, especially a conservatively minded one, would interpret successful implantation as evidence that viability exists at conception. | | | Abortion foes who have fought embryonic research as murder are faced with the prospect that the scientific research they oppose could be their savior. |
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| | Apologetics Press - In the News: Artificial Womb? |
| | Using cells taken from the uterus, along with a cocktail of drugs and hormones, researchers constructed a lab-made womb. | | | The embryos reportedly attached to the walls of this prototype womb and began to settle there. | | | The headlines sound like they are straight out of a science-fiction novel. |
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| | On Lisa Rein's Radar: Artificial wombs are here. The |
| | The first thing I thought of when I saw this article were all of the good things that could come from an artificial womb. | | | what about single men?many people talk about the artificial womb and how it affects women,but few | | | The only thing stopping scientists from growing a baby to term in one (or even very far past fertilization) are the government regulations prohibiting such activity. |
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| | John Robert Shook |
| | Independent Study PHIL 4990: Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence ----- Fall 2005 | | | Scott Gelfand, Ectogenesis: Artificial Womb Technology and the Future of Human Reproduction. | | | Also one of the Dictionary's subject editors, for Pragmatism, and author for dozens of entries. |
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| | Impact Lab - Artificial Womb and Designer Babies |
| | Do You Think Artificial Womb Research Should Continue? | | | Call for papers:We invite submissions for presentation at this conference, on the topics of ectogenesis/artificial womb technology, genetic engineering, and the impact of reproductive technologies on social relationships and values. | | | Impact Lab - Artificial Womb and Designer Babies |
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| | Artificial womb - definition of Artificial womb in Encyclopedia |
| | Searchword not found in the selected dictionary, but you can try the following: | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page | | | Artificial womb - definition of Artificial womb in Encyclopedia |
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| | MERCY POINT Encyclopedia |
| | Young couple expecting a child whose baby was placed in the artificial womb in Episode 1.1 | | | He tries to understand her anger, later apologizes, and attempts to motivate her. | | | Batung gives world famous gymnast Nancy Curtis two artificial legs. |
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