artificial womb
In 1932 Aldous Huxley wrote a futuristic novel in which, besides the usual flying machines, incubators giant described as growing human fetuses. Real tanks filled with amniotic fluid which took place in the "gestation".
1997 Tokyo, Yoshinori Kuwabara, taking a goat fetus of 17 weeks, placed it in a plastic container filled with amniotic fluid, at constant temperature. The umbilical cord had been replaced by pipes connected to special machines that pump in highly oxygenated blood and nutrients.
The experiment worked perfectly, the animal was "calved" from the container does not present the slightest problem.
The important point is the focus of the turning point that an experiment can have: children born not from human uterus, but in plastic containers. Under continuous control and fed by a machine. Possibility of giving birth without pain. Fact or fiction? But most of all: the second or unnatural behavior??
Sergio (il_doblone@katamail.com)
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