An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep

Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by danuta_ on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:43AM (#14218607)

This is actually great. The possibilities are vast: saving prematurely born babies, speeding up the healing process of patients with severe burns...and then even (maybe) bringing back to life some of the extinct species (this one's tricky though).

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Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by alvarosevilla95 on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:16AM (#14219086)

I wonder what the implications of functioning artificial wombs would be to abortion. Would it make sense to allow people to abort if we could take the fetus from the mother and let it become a baby?

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Re:An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep by jerryszczerry on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:50AM (#14219317)

If/when that becomes feasible, I assume moving the fetus to the artificial womb would become a more humanitarian (if more expensive) equivalent to getting an abortion.

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