[helmsman]

Read this thread on the development of an Artificial Womb.

While reading, you should remember that Roe V. Wade guarantees the right to abort only unborn children who are not "viable" -- able to survive outside of the mother. The court made it clear that the state has a right to regulate and ban abortion after that point. In theory, therefore, all unborn children could be considered viable under Roe V Wade when this technology is applied to humans.

[Almondjoy]

Well then... so what your saying is that if a woman gets pregnant and they are able to (we'll say extract) the fetus from the mother's womb in say the first month. So if they could do that and it was viable they couldn't abort it... interesting situation because if they could do that then you might have a situation where mother's wouldn't have to abort kids at all.. I like that idea... the situation then arises.. if the mother doesn't want the child.. and it's not able to be on it's own(medically unassisted) for several more months.. we might have to start colonies of baby farms.. maybe places attached to foster care or adoption agencies.

In that case it might even become a market(quickly struck down in a law by congress, we of course can't be selling babies for a profit). Nevertheless a woman who doesn't want the child might benefit in two ways.. one not going through the pain of abortion and causing the death to child.. and two the benefit of not having to provide for the child. Very interesting indeed.