Are synthetic wombs the future of childbirth? New Chinese experiment sparks debate
https://kr-asia.com/are-synthetic-wombs-the-future-of-childbirth-new-chinese-experiment-sparks-debate
Are synthetic wombs the future of childbirth? New Chinese experiment sparks debate
https://kr-asia.com/are-synthetic-wombs-the-future-of-childbirth-new-chinese-experiment-sparks-debate
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Submission Post: “Recently, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (ZDYFY) announced a groundbreaking synthetic womb experiment without the use of [extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)](https://www.chop.edu/treatments/extracorporeal-membrane-oxygenation-ecmo). In this experiment, a four-month-old fetal lamb survived for 90 minutes while hooked up to a unique apparatus, maintaining vital signs through a connection with its mother.
Zhao Gaofeng, the lead researcher and director of the pulmonary transplant surgery department at ZDYFY, highlighted this as China’s first ECMO-free synthetic womb experiment, signifying a major breakthrough—it suggests the potential for both males and females, given compatible blood types, to gestate fetuses.
The idea that anyone can bear children has sparked vast imagination. Discussions on social media ensued about factory assembly lines for babies as well as men getting pregnant and giving birth, at times overshadowing the technology itself.”
“*Bottle of mine, it’s you I’ve always wanted!*
*Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?*
*Skies are blue inside of you,*
*The weather’s always fine;*
*For there ain’t no Bottle in all the world*
*Like that dear little Bottle of mine*.”
Probably will be due to the declining birth rate situation many countries are facing.
How would this technology address the societal issue of people choosing not to raise children?
“We have made the world so shit they won’t have more worker slaves for us”…
“Let’s just grow them ourselves, problem solved!!”
Yes! Once this is perfected, we can leave the biological tyranny of child-carrying in the dust.
If they can be safer than natural birth, that’s great. However if it’s not, then it’s just a novelty birth method that’s only viable for vary risky natural child births.
If we have artifical wombs it would be the biggest change to sociaty since the pill.
A true equality of the sexes, no birth defects, no mother’s with bad habits or addictions, a much closer qualities for all babies.
Give it 10-15 years of artifical wombs and having a natural baby will look both dangerous and irresponsible.
Do you want Death Korps of Krieg?
Cause this how you get Death Korps of Krieg.
What if you could just farm your own babies as a government? Can’t clone them for whatever reason you just pay your population for there eggs and sperm. Demographics fixed.
I mean, hopefully. Have you seen what pregnancy does to a woman? The risks? How painful the birth is?
Freedom from biological tyranny or hello dystopian nightmare? The potential for abuse by authoritarian regimes is bigly. Also curious to see how children born this way will turn out. So much development happens during gestation. I imagine they will burn a few biscuits before getting it right.