The big challenge with preterm babies is that none of their organs are sufficiently developed to survive in the outside air. If you can just state these babies in a liquid environment, you can allow those really, really underdeveloped organs to continue to grow. Eve gets quite in depth about some of the ethical questions that are posed by artificial wombs in terms of these trials.
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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