I want to discuss a little bit eugenics, because you do talk about this. And I think you've got to perhaps a broader definition of eugenics than people out on the street might be used to. So just talk us through that. The relationship between artificial wounds and eugenics actually begins at that conference in Cambridge where JBS Howdy coined the word ectogenesis. It was very much developed in the context of how would we use artificial wombs for eugenics.
As technology continues to advance, the once distant concept of growing a human fetus outside the womb is inching closer to reality. But with these advancements come myriad ethical, legal, and social questions that challenge our understanding of parenthood, abortion rights, and even personhood. To discuss these issues our host Helen Czerski is joined by Claire Horn, research fellow at Dalhousie University's Health Law Institute and author of Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth.
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