As a believer in souls, I have mixed emotions and a million questions.
2007-02-13 10:10:29 · 18 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Seems like a natural progression of science -- test tube babies, meet womb babies.
I think there should be some kind of legal limit on how old these embryos are allowed to develop in these artificial wombs. I don't want to see a "crop" of fetuses purged as they develop -- I'm pro-choice, but not because I see late-term abortion as morally wonderful. I'm also concerned about the idea of bringing children into this world who have no parents, or only very old parents. (70 year olds having kids? Hmmm.)
I also want to see ethicists study the issue, and see arguments on what could come of this, and what the ethical implications could be. I'm by no means an expert, so I want to hear what the experts have to say.
2007-02-13 10:28:27 · answer #1 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that a womb isn't necessarily for a being to have a soul. Don't you believe that so-called test tube babies have souls? I would say the same thing would be the case of babies who lived in an artificial womb. :-)
Just think it could help a lot of women who have problems carrying a baby to term.
2007-02-13 18:21:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Would the artificial womb still require humans to furnish eggs and sperm? If so, why not use them universally?
They would spare women a lot of pain and discomfort, save the lives of women and children who now sometimes die in childbirth, and provide controlled developmental conditions for the fetus, greatly lessening the number of malformed, defective babies.
I see no reason why any of this should have any effect on the soul.
2007-02-13 18:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by Husker41 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is one already. It is called a test tube.
I recall seeing the first baby that had been conceived by injecting a male sperm into a woman's egg that had been removed from her body.
The fertilized egg grew nicely in the "artifical womb" and then was placed in the mother for final completion to a fully developed baby.
I think the girl is now 10 and is very pretty and looks normal in every way.
For some reason the Catholic Church is against this method of reproduction.
2007-02-13 18:20:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Firstly, anything is possible.
Trying to develop an artificial womb would be a terrible waste of money/energy considering all the real wombs that already exist.
2007-02-13 18:14:23 · answer #5 · answered by Bog-man 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
its still a human being the womb is artificial or real! so if a person has down syndrome does he have a soul?
2007-02-13 18:15:13 · answer #6 · answered by cynthia10415 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's possible... a person who is developed in an artificial womb wont' be any less of a person...
2007-02-13 18:13:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
non believers ?
ok ill answer anyway lol i never know what that phrase means
but no i dont like the idea of this at all ... and perhaps sometimes science does go a little too far
2007-02-13 18:13:36 · answer #8 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no artificial womb, A baby comes from a womb, hence there is no jesus, and no god.
For those of you who may say mary gave birth to jesus, who was the father?? It does take sperm you know...
2007-02-13 18:14:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would ask if there was something wrong with the way we make children now? Is there some sort of human shortage we're not aware of?
2007-02-13 18:14:10 · answer #10 · answered by Omni D 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋