We already "don't need men". Other mammals have been cloned or heterozygously created from bimaternal parents, and only females are required for either of these processes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45801043
Also I imagine you'll still need a womb to grow the embryo? Ovaries are not a womb, so "commercializing" this alone doesn't obviate the need for women.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-50056405
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020969/mouse-em...
And I agree with you we "don't need men"; I'm just pointing out a litany of implications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112
I think it’s relatively close, sure maybe 10 years, I’m not sure exactly. My point, was that this technology is going down this path and theoretically, pretty dangerous
Most of humanity is female. Women are the majority. If we’re getting rid of one of the sexes you’d better hope not everyone gets to vote.
Seriously, the idea that women are only useful to society as baby incubators is the most jaw-droppingly sexist thing I’ve seen on this site in years.
I never said anything close to this.
Further, it doesn't mean I think we should create an authoritarian dictatorship where dictators control cloned slaves. You know, something I also mentioned.
I'm stating alternatives that can occur and what others will think.
https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio#how-does-the-sex-rat...
https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio#how-many-women-are-m...
Babies need to develop inside a uterus, and artificial wombs are much harder to make than artificial ovaries.
Do these people really intend for these technologies to benefit the broad mass of people?
That said, hate to be a downer, but I do want to point out some stuff:
> And I’ve never understood this
Let's just go through a few fairly obvious scenarios that can come from this:
- Once this is commercialized we no longer need women.
- Genetic diversity, thing of the past.
- DNA sequences are patented and owned by biotech at birth, you'll have to pay your loan back for life.
- Kill switch added to every human, such that if you question your authoritarian masters, they'll kill everyone with the given switch. (i.e. cloned slaves)
- Governments can castrate the entire population and control the future (think this wouldn't happen, see how mandatory abortion laws for the genetically unfit - they have quite a few in Europe, Asia, etc).
- Genocide-made-easy, wipe any population you want out and grow a new one
Let's just consider the more mundane:
- We already have children without parents. Imagine the desire for any kind of foster situation when you can just grow your own.
- Elderly parents looking to raise children (say, as you say, in your 60's) could now do so
- Government raising & caring for children...
I'm sorry, I hear the calls for improvements in this area, but... the down side risks are enormous. I personally, think it's inevitable, but I also assume all technology will be used for maximal good and evil. Unfortunately, this technology seems like it has far more evil potential.