It just seems like such a wasteful non-issue.
Caring about the existing lives of people and the existing bodies of adults causes so much more of a positive effect on our society. Forcing people to give birth to babies just results in slightly more unwanted babies and no progress on the cultural emancipation of womens’ biology
I guess it makes sense Christians care about it, because they believe in metaphysical sanctity, even though their fetuses have an afterlife to go to, but Christianity is very clearly false, so ideally it should not have any influence on the debate
My point was the entire argument relies on the fact that fetuses cannot live outside of a womb, so our laws, restricting late term abortion and outlawing infanticide reflect that
It’s a necessity to draw a legal line somewhere, and society works much better when abortion is an option.
We could continue developing the technology, testing it on lambs, and trialling it with preemies, and then eventually we could get to a point where a very early term fetus could be gestated within such an artificial womb
If we had artificial womb technology, you would have a very very strong case that a system of anonymous transplant, full-term carry, and right to life, is the only system that makes moral sense, and you would not end up restricting the bodily autonomy of anyone
I’m sure there would be people who would be against such a system of mandatory fetal preservation and transplant, but they would have almost no ethical case, and I would be glad to argue in favour of mandatory preservation with you
As it stands, the anti-abortion pro-life movement is not supporting this technology, they are wildly unpopular, their laws are ugly, oppressive, and detestable, and their methods are ridiculous
There are better issues you could care about, like getting TPN for preemies to contain fish oil with DHA, or like supporting technologies
I still care about climate change as The largest issue, for both wide-scale-ethical, and personal-aesthetic-moral reasons. I don’t think we’ll get there by degrowth because no one with power will ever go for it, so I am very much so for renewable energy expansion and further research into carbon capture and geoengineering