A radical interrogation of the ethics and Future of Birth by an expert legal scholar.
Could artificial wombs allow women to redistribute the work of gestating? How do we protect reproductive and abortion rights? And who exactly gets access to this technology, in our vastly unequal world?.
As she explores the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age, Horn reflects on her own pregnancy.
In this fascinating story of modern birth, Claire Horn takes us on a journey from the first orchid-like incubators in the 1880s to the cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs of today.
What does this breakthrough in artificial human gestation mean for motherhood, womanhood, and parenthood? Countries and people that do not respect the autonomy of pregnant people may use these technologies to curtail choice further, advance eugenic ideas, or to deepen class and racial divides.
But such radical technology leaves us with complex legal, social, and ethical questions.
For the first time, babies could be gestated and born from machines through Ex-vivo Uterine Environment Therapy, aka EVE.
But that is about to change.
So far.
Every single one of us has been born from a person.
A radical interrogation of the ethics and Future of Birth by an expert legal scholar
