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You don't feel like being pregnant? Maybe you should think about that before you feel like having sex, huh? An artificial womb could never replace a woman's body, it's something that is vital to the developmental process. If you have artificial wombs, then why even bother raise your children, if you didn't have to birth it? You're taking away some of the most important things about life! The connection a mother has with her offspring. Yes, there are surrogate mothers and adoptive mothers, but that's different, to take away the womb completely from the life process would be silly.

That's the thing that enrages me most about society. Life isn't about how we feel, what we want. It's about haw things are. What the facts are. Truth is truth.

-Whyette

No, I do want to have children one day. But right now (especially up at school) if I was to get pregnant the chance of me dying or needing sevre hospitalization is high. Last semester I came to school weight 105 lbs. In 4 months because of the food up here I lost 11 lbs. I only gained one back. If I was to say get pregnant this year and then have the same problems I did last year I'd lose the 11 lbs again (dropping me to 84 lbs) and on top of that the nutrients that I would be taking in would be in an internal battle between myself and any child I carry. I'm not willing to put myself at that risk until I want a child. And when I do, if the problem comes up the abortion will still happen. I'm not only looking oyt for my well being but any child I might want.

Now you are thinking I should stop having sex, I have two words. Screw that. If you were to bother to read the thread that I have then you would know that I have fallen to the path of only having an abortion with a threat to my, or any child I'm carrying, health. And I will have to throw in my mental health as well because my manic depresent disorder is still not under control with my meds and therapy. The manic is higher than the depressent but the down falls there is I'm more reckless.

Actually if science was to develop an artificial womb they would make sure to the develop it to the stage that it WOULD be able to replace a woman's body. A pacemaker can replace a heart can it not? The artifical womb would be desinged to replace the uterus.

Now I suggest you go and actually LEARN about a person before you start making the assumptions you are. It'll help you out in the long run because of the glorious saying about the word assume.

I've often wondered the same thing.

Women don't have to breastfeed because of technology, do you have an issue with that? Raising a child is about a psychological connection (beyond feeding him/her, of course). Carrying a fetus for 9 months is a physical drain, and though some women like it, many don't feel a psychological connection to the fetus at all--that's why some women are pro-choice. If foster mothers can love their children, so can women who let their children develop in artificial wombs. If I have kids, I'll adopt them, and I'll never feel any resentment toward them for stretch marks, weight gain, back problems, etc. that I might've had if I got pregnant with them.

Whether there is a psychological connection or not, there is still something gained from a real womb. I apologize for my comments earlier, because I know that a mother can have a connection and love an adopted child. But there is something special that comes from the process of birth through the woman's body.

I'm also concerned about the lives that might be taken in the testing of an artificial womb. Besides, animal rights people would freak out if we tried it on animals, but humans, that's okay!! (Sorry, that's a completely different topic.)

I'm just saying that having a child is not something that you feel like doing. It is something irreplaceable in the cycle of life. I understand that, as a guy, my opinion might not be worth a whole lot, but I think that using an artificial womb would be... wrong.

The consequence of having sex, is having a baby. It's a good consequence, no doubt, but for some, it's a horrible thing to happen. However, I think that that should be something you think about before having sex.

I really don't think that the pain of child bearing could ever overpower the joy that a person would feel in having a child. I look forward to the day I can bring a person into the world. Not the fornication itself, but the actual act of bringing someone into the world. It's a great thing to think about.

I know, off topic in someplaces, but I'm fairly tired (not that that is an excuse, but whatever...)

-Whyette

Then there's the way it's done. It's not like it's removing a whole fetus and letting it die naturally. It's killing the fetus in the womb and pulling it out in pieces. It's not about just her body, she's got the right over the fetus' body too.

Actually, they are using a technically true point; AIDS doesn't kill -anyone-. "All" it does is weaken the immune system substantially. What kills people with AIDS is the infection that they get because their immune system is unable to take care of it; The common cold, chicken pox, whatever. But most people think of it as AIDS killing the person, because, often, people with AIDS are so weakened by the virus that they die of things that the immune system would ordinarily just shrug off. And AIDS does lead to their death, because it would be no problem if they had a properly working immune system.

So they are trying to use a technicallity to fight their side; And using the fact that most people think AIDS kills everyone who contracts it, they compare it to pregnancy.

I think it is truly disgusting that they would use the death of AIDS victims in such a way. Saying, "AIDS didn't really kill them, even though without AIDS they wouldn't have died. So AIDS does kill less then pregnancy! Hahahahah!". It really annoys me.