Artificial Wombs Are Nearly Here and Feminists Are Already Freaking Out

Lethn · 2017-09-26T16:36:20+00:00

Wait... I thought artificial wombs would be a good thing even for the deranged feminists because it would mean they wouldn't have to deal with pregnancy.

At a minimum the technology would certainly re-energize the abortion debate in general and likely be the final death toll for Roe V. Wade. Some Feminists have even already expressed their panic at the idea that abortion laws could possibly be changed to forced extraction of the undesired child rather than simply killing it.

“that ectogenesis encourages long-standing misogynistic medical practices appropriating women’s wombs for science’s sake.”

That's it, I give up, these people are well and truly deranged whenever they even go near the subject of sex and pregnancy. It was actually a pro-lifer awhile back who even suggested to me artificial wombs as an alternative to abortion in the first place and I thought that was incredibly reasonable.

RapeMatters · 2017-09-26T17:21:24+00:00

I think they're freaking out over nothing.

I'd say the chances of women being held to the same level of accountability as men are pretty low. It didn't happen with the right to vote, it hasn't happened in the criminal justice system, and it probably won't happen here.

One of the cited articles on Gizmodo:

Developing technology also tests the rhetoric surrounding the right to choose. A woman’s right to control her own body is a common legal and ethical argument made in favor of abortion. Under that logic, though, the law could simply compel a woman to put her fetus into an external womb, giving her back control of her own body but still forcing her into parenthood.

The amount of self-awareness here is so small you'd need an electron microscope to see it.

HeForeverBleeds · 2017-09-26T16:12:52+00:00

I think it will be a great day when women donate eggs the same as men donate sperm. Even though there will still be "natural", non-mechanical births, the fact that it wouldn't be necessary for a woman to carry the child and give birth seems like it would be a great step towards equality, especially on the matter of father's rights and male disposability

celebrate the additional distance that ectogenesis would place between a woman and her child

This is a distance that fathers already have with their children. Mothers also having it is only equality, not oppression. Of course, since this equality would take away the unequal advantage women have in their ability to use the "only women can have children" trump card, of course feminists aren't happy. I think it's observable that many of them are very selective in what areas they want equality in

2017-09-26T22:36:17+00:00

I'll miss the bigger breasts, but hey, no stretch marks!

mrwhibbley · 2017-09-26T17:56:31+00:00

I feel that not directly experiencing the pregnancy, the first kick, the hormonal changes, the delivery and so one diminishes the bond for both parents. For lack of a better term, you appreciate something more when your struggle to earn it.

Lrellok · 2017-09-26T18:14:22+00:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2964586/Scientists-say-make-human-egg-skin-two-men.html

Free at last, free at last.

nisutapasion · 2017-09-27T12:20:41+00:00

Bound with the mother starts at the womb. It's said that the fetuses even can hear the father's voice in there.

I wonder if this test tube babies can cope with the lack of it.

2017-09-27T17:33:21+00:00

This won't change a single thing because feminists don't want it to be possible to force them into parenthood.

Title	Artificial Wombs Are Nearly Here and Feminists Are Already Freaking Out
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Date	September 26, 2017 3:55 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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