Posted on 06/17/2017 6:02:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Artificial wombs are making tremendous progress. Will be good for both men and women for a number of reasons.
Is this what transhumanists have wet dreams about on the nights they’re not dreaming of electric sheep?
There’s more than one way to be a mother or a father, and I’m not talking about hiring surrogates. There are children in your life who could use a devoted aunt or uncle, and children not in your life who could be adopted.
Did he consider just having sex with a woman, to create a baby that way?
It will be bad for the whole human race for a number of reasons.
Even now, IVF + surrogacy dehumanizes parents by denying the link between natural intercourse and procreation. It breaks the natural bond between the child and his genetic and gestational mothers (who ought to be the same woman, but they are not) and brings him into the world an intentional half orphan, permanently deprived of a mother and of one-half of his kinship universe.
T’hell with mother-child bonding: dispensable! Like saying one of your eyes is dispensable! Like saying half your brain is dispensable!
With artificial wombs it would be even worse: once again, reproduction by less-than-veterinary methods, based on a commercial transaction and not on love making, but yet another step down the road to total depersonalization.
If mothers are optional, even disposable, what about fathers?
In the future children could be begotten, conceived, carried and raised by machines. Each one individually copyrighted, trademark protected and licensed. And with a return and full refund, no-questions-asked, product quality control guarantee.
Tremendous progress!
A plus for everybody except the human race!
This is creepy stuff.
The world has gone mad.
Nah. Too messily human.
I’m not going to judge the guy since I’m not walking in his shoes.. IMHO, the more children that are born in the Western world to a parent that will love them and actually SUPPORT THEM (both financially & emotionally) the better.
I never had heard the term “doula” before reading this article.
Women and the state have already made fathers disposable. The only thing they are kept around for is to be the woman’s atm.
Women already have the ability to be single parents whenever they want. They can go to a sperm bank or do any number of things.
Women and society - uncle sugar - are proud they have made men obsolete and smile when they say kids do not need dads to urn out ok, they already say dads are optional and are either not needed or two women can do just as well.
This just levels the playing field and gives men the option to make women optional, if they desire.
And of course the women will hate it because it gives men power women already exclusively have over men. Can’t let men do it too.
All these things you listed are wrong.
And it doesn’t help to take things to another level of wrong, instead of trying to make one thing right.
Let’s commoditize everything!
We do see what’s wrong with that, I hope.
The missing key to this story, I am guessing, is that this man is a homosexual
There is a link? Who knew?
Only God can judge anyone on a subjective level, so I am with you about judging this guy’s heart. As for his plans, there are so many children who are born and going e born who don’t have fathers. There is no need to go to freaky, artificial lengths to create children for this particular man. If he wants to be a father, he can become one to a child who already needs one.
Why didn’t he find a wife? Head of company, wants to have a family?
Don’t know, but my gaydar didn’t ping when looking at his picture and there were no quotes about “my partner”. But it’s possible.
He wanted to have HIS biological child(ren). That’s quite a normal thing to want. That may not be important to some folks, but it apparently is to him.
Or, even more common, a misogynist.
I think if he were a homosexual, that would be part of the lede. He’d have brave hero status.
So the Beatles were wrong? Money CAN buy you LOVE?
Yikes. Bump for later. Or, maybe not.
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