Ashley Meyer > I appreciate you pointing what sounds woo, I always...
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Ashley Meyer > I appreciate you pointing what sounds woo, I always try to be guided by intuition but checked by fact & science. Thanks! > Where are the technologies to make natural pregnancy healthier, more comfortable, and more easeful? Well, there have been a number of advances that have made pregnancy / childbirth safer, easier, and less damaging: sterile technique, anesthesia, C-sections, labor inducing drugs, anti-nausea drugs, plastic surgery, to name a few. And I don't think anyone here is opposed to making the process of gestation / childbirth even more pleasant. However, it seems to me that there are inherent downsides to pregnancy that seem insurmountable: no matter what, a baby is going to cause weight gain, push organs around, press down on your bladder, cause stretch marks, loosen ligaments, kick, etc. To solve those difficulties will require artificial wombs in my estimation. > The fact that researchers aren't asking that and are skipping straight to cutting women out of the process of gestation reeks of misogyny to me. Many women want artificial wombs so they don't have to endure the pain, discomfort, and risk of pregnancy in order to have children. And some women can't naturally bear children (due to cancer, age, deformity). Are those women misogynous? But even if it were only men who wanted artificial wombs, I don't see how wanting to have the ability to independently reproduce means you're a misogynist. If there were safe and easy technologies to increase a woman's height, strength, and speed to match/exceed those of biological men, would it be misandrist if some women wanted that technology? I would say no. Likewise, I don't see the problem with giving men access to a capability that was heretofore limited to biological women. It seems to me that scientists should be aiming to give both sexes the freedom to adopt whatever capabilities they wish to have, regardless of their original biological sex.