Artificial wombs are making tremendous progress. Will be good for both men and women for a number of reasons.
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!
what kind of a mother doesn’t want her grandchildren to have a traditional mother, woman in their lives? Why would a man want to omit a true mother to his children?
These people are their own gods.