FDA schedules meeting to establish regulatory rules for artificial womb trials
Sounds like any widespread use is still a ways out if we&#x27;re in the &quot;setting rules for trials&quot; phase now, but I&#x27;m curious what impact artificial wombs would have on abortion laws in the US, if any.<p>The non-religious aspects of the abortion debate partly hinge on this idea of fetal viability (specifically, the time at which most fetuses have a high chance of survival outside the womb), and I could imagine artificial wombs bringing that viability threshold down a bit. Which then opens the door to a whole other debate about whether terminating a pregnancy could (or should) involve transplantation. I know some current bioethics argue that abortion is currently permissible because the death of the fetus is merely a side effect of terminating a pregnancy, rather than its goal...