Article Q6GQ Feminists, get ready: pregnancy and abortion are about to be disrupted | Eleanor Robertson

Feminists, get ready: pregnancy and abortion are about to be disrupted | Eleanor Robertson

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Eleanor Robertson
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Artificial wombs, able to gestate a foetus outside the body, will completely upend feminism's accepted arguments on bodily autonomy - for good or ill

Hold onto your ovaries folks, womb transplants are here. Ten UK women have been approved for the procedure, and babies born from donated uteruses could crawl among us as early as next year.

Leaving aside the ethical considerations of womb transplantation, our ability to gestate humans in novel locations is developing so quickly that it's worth looking ahead to the next development: artificial wombs, or ectogenesis.

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