When I see an article like this and then scan the comments, I am not surprised that many responses are powerfully shallow and not deep in the moral philosophy of the concept. Pregnancy continues to be a dangerous enterprise for many women throughout the world. I don’t know the exact number, but I think it’s somewhere like .01% or roughly…
When I see an article like this and then scan the comments, I am not surprised that many responses are powerfully shallow and not deep in the moral philosophy of the concept. Pregnancy continues to be a dangerous enterprise for many women throughout the world. I don’t know the exact number, but I think it’s somewhere like .01% or roughly 1M per year that die across the globe giving birth. Even one death in today’s society is one to many, but for the sake of this thought experiment what if we could eliminate this number through gestational robotics kind of like the science fiction movies where we could grow babies in pods assuring. 100% safety record. How many here would think this would be a worthwhile endeavor. Why? It reduces suffering; it ensures a positive birth rate for our species; it accommodates different parenting structure--both heterosexual and homosexual and others; and so on. I think we will get there some day. The question is why not now? Let the debate begin, but just like surrogacy and IVF there is never a right or wrong answer, but there are a lot of corner cases that draw upon the deepest emotional connections we have to ourselves and others.
When I see an article like this and then scan the comments, I am not surprised that many responses are powerfully shallow and not deep in the moral philosophy of the concept. Pregnancy continues to be a dangerous enterprise for many women throughout the world. I don’t know the exact number, but I think it’s somewhere like .01% or roughly 1M per year that die across the globe giving birth. Even one death in today’s society is one to many, but for the sake of this thought experiment what if we could eliminate this number through gestational robotics kind of like the science fiction movies where we could grow babies in pods assuring. 100% safety record. How many here would think this would be a worthwhile endeavor. Why? It reduces suffering; it ensures a positive birth rate for our species; it accommodates different parenting structure--both heterosexual and homosexual and others; and so on. I think we will get there some day. The question is why not now? Let the debate begin, but just like surrogacy and IVF there is never a right or wrong answer, but there are a lot of corner cases that draw upon the deepest emotional connections we have to ourselves and others.