Would you support the right of a pregnant woman to abort her pregnancy against the wishes of the father of the fetus? What about the right of a father to abort a fetus against the wishes of a pregnant mother? If babies could gestate outside a woman’s body, would you reconsider your responses?
This type of technology might also refocus the abortion debate. Megan McArdle is right on the money here:
Pro-choice advocates don’t talk so much about the right not to be a parent; they focus on the right to control your own body. That’s also where the constitutional law seems to be focused, or so I read the right to privacy. The minute you can take an aborted fetus and put it in an artificial womb, that argument falls away, and we get down to what pro-choicers really care about: not having a kid.
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