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Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by tome on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:35AM (#14218051)
And what of what might be best for the child?
Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by Pica_soO on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:43AM (#14218079)
Eh, lets consult the oracle? Seriously- one never knows, because its the future- so asking the question is kind of pointless.
Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by tome on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:52AM (#14218117)
We can have a jolly good guess regarding whether people would like to have been carried inside their mother versus gestating inside a plastic bag.
Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by klibertp on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:09AM (#14219047)
Why would being inside your mother for nine months, which you have no recollection of, be more important than the following years of developing an emotional bond? It's not even about making such children lack the body contact with parents since that only happens after the baby is born.

Anecdotal, but I'd have no feelings about being grown in a bag. I'd be rather happy to know my mother didn't have to suffer through 9 months of pregnancy.

I feel that strong feelings towards these things are a product of culture. Some did some good, like saying the pregnancy is a blessing to make it easier for women to pull through. But with developments like the one described in the article, these cultural norms stop being useful and can be safely dropped.

Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by Pica_soO on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:56AM (#14218132)
I think most people would vote for being born and having a nice childhood. Also the bag removes the artificial limitations on brain size that is female hip. Finally, i have seen many woman, who would love to have children, but at the same time are so bound to this sick ideal of being thin and eternally beautiful, they "train" away there children.

I think being born from a bag, is preferabl to not being born at all, any time.

Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by magic_beans on Friday April 28, 2017 @06:17AM (#14218205)
This is ridiculous. Your anecdotal stories about a few thin women isn't harming the general population's fecundity, or even those womens'.
Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by Pica_soO on Friday April 28, 2017 @06:58AM (#14218387)
Stampeding over the edge cases, so much fun, until the edge cases trample you.
Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by gadders on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:07AM (#14219452)
I would imagine 99.999% of the time adoption is better than being dead.
Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by omginternets on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:57AM (#14219861)
I would imagine the exact opposite.

Shit life vs a (sentient) life that never begins? Sign me up for the latter.