Artificial womb facility could one day allow parents to pick the characteristics of their babies
By: Hashem Al-Ghaili, Ecto Life (YahooNews)
Okay. Can science go too far? I get it. But. BIG BUT! Is this a plan/scheme to make girls and women obsolete as far as childbearing is concerned? With this kind of thing interfere with the plans of girls and women to marry? Will girls and women see it as a convenience or 'disruption' in the design?
How are you going to process this?
Girls and women are side-stepped enough by the boys and men in their lives; without science relegating childbearing and 'advanced foundational enhancements and inducements' coming from the outside.
That is, let's get real, trans-females have one disadvantage where girls and women are (today) concerned for which they could only look on with possible envy: A CIS girl or woman unique ability to sustain life in the womb!
And now science is on the brim to 'counter' this through its search for the truth about how females 'tick.'
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Cassie Morris January 5, 2023, 4:07 PM·2 min read
A conceptual artificial womb facility called EctoLife is providing a glimpse into one possible future of fertility.
Conceived by biotechnologist, filmmaker and sci-fi author Hashem Al-Ghaili, EctoLife would be powered entirely by renewable energy and accommodate up to 400 "growth pods" — allowing for the incubation of up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year.
In Al-Ghaili's vision, these pods would be made of materials that prevent germs from sticking to their surfaces, enabling babies to develop in infection-free environments. With the help of an artificial umbilical cord, these pods would provide custom nutrients tailored to their individual needs.
Each pod would also be able to provide real-time data on each baby's vital signs, allowing doctors to track their developmental progress and intervene medically if need be. This data could be accessed 24/7 by parents via an app on their phone — an app that would also provide a 360-degree view of their developing baby.
By accessing this app, parents could watch a time-lapse of their baby's growth, share real-time photos with family and customize the music and languages being played to their baby within the pod. They can even speak to their babies to help familiarize them with their voices.
But the most advanced — and potentially controversial — feature of EctoLife would be what Al-Ghaili calls the "Elite Package," which would allow parents to genetically engineer their embryo before placing it in the artificial womb.
"Thanks to CRISPR-CAS 9 gene editing tool, you can edit any trait of your baby through a wide range of over 300 genes," Al-Ghaili's explains. "By genetically engineering a set of genes, the Elite Package allows you to customize your baby's eye color, hair color, skin tone, physical strength, height and level of intelligence. It also allows you to fix any inherited genetic diseases that are part of your family history, so that your baby and their offspring will live a healthy, comfortable life, free of genetic diseases."
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According to Al-Ghaili's, the concept of EctoLife is based on "over 50 years of groundbreaking scientific research conducted by researchers worldwide."
While EctoLife is still just a concept, Al-Ghaili's vision certainly does pose some interesting questions about what the future holds for fertility and reproduction.
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This is interesting, curious, and dangerous all at the same time. Your thoughts? How do you feel about what science is striving towards in this area of child-making?
Will science engineer "little frankenstein" without the stitched-togetherness? Can science engineer a man-made 'god' for this world?
I do not see any way this is good for humanity. It would have some short-term benefits, but in the long-term it is the recipe for the extinction of natural homo-sapiens and a world inhabited by bio-engineered homo-sapiens. And that bio-engineering would almost certainly be controlled by a tiny minority. I think anyone can complete the scenario now.
SCIENCE wants to know how we as beings tick. However, humanity all across the world has sadly misunderstood the beauty that is girl and woman for centuries! It is not enough to automate toll-bridges for which thanks to 2019 COVID-19 led the way to exposing how such workers and laborers were/are not "really" needed (because they can catch contagions through air transmission and cameras and terminals do not!) It is hard to process which is worse for humanity; is it tampering with the mechanics of the womb itself or mathematically designed babies/children/adults?
On Apple TV I am viewing a series called "Foundation" and it is about a long line of universal clones from one man which has the position, title, and name designation EMPIRE. It is starling what the human mind can conceive in art. . .which can lead to reality.
The question is this: When it is a matter of 'pure' science how can we know to do something and deny the activity of doing 'it'? For every thought that is conceived in the mind; is conceived multiple 'places' within this planet. That is, if we do not explore the concept; somebody else will do it in our stead!
This is not about being conservative, loving the 'status quo,' or being "old-fashioned." This is really potentially dangerous business.
Science offers no guide for morality. That is on us.
And the politics (of girls/women) has always faltered. Just as the country is looking to females for greater, improving leadership roles, science is giving voice to a narrative for 'perfecting' babies with ectolife machines with a side-effect of downgrading and relegating girls and women into a contest mode of who/what is better at creating desirable babies.
It is. . . telling that in this video the announcer starts out with a salient point about a decrease in and a 'help' machine intending to decrease premature birth deaths and brain damage, but by the end of the video is selling (persuading) his listeners on the idea of 'fixing' broken babies. This is very interesting, because WHY is capitalism involved in making so-called PERFECT babies?
Now then, I will give girls and women a momentary 'pause' in discussion and ask a different question:
1. Will these perfect babies have corresponding gene screening processes and removals for say. . . homosexual, bi-sexual, and transsexual tendencies?
2. And what about all other 'sins' found lodged in the body, mind, and spirit of collective humanity?
3. Is the world 'ready' for this kind of social 'diversity'? And what kind of 'species' will these babies be?
The Axolotl tanks from Dune are coming (I have brought these up before)
And then there is the politics of (female subordination) the 'weaker' sex losing what makes for their uniqueness. I don't relish any of this coming in the future!
Alas! No one wants to discuss this future 'world' and its landscape.
Will babies 'born' this way, actually be citizens or slaves?