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▲ jazzyjackson an hour ago

Don’t be so sure. I hate to draw the comparison but raising a child in an artificial womb is probably at least as difficult as growing chicken wings in a sterile environment. A startup founder that wanted to grow meat pivoted to lab grown egg whites, in his words in order to grow a cube of solid meat any bigger than a centimeter cubed, you could not keep it sterile, it is too attractive of a growth medium. In the case of a chicken, it’s like the rest of the bird is needed to provide an immune system so the meat doesn’t spoil.

Mothers provide more than a growth vat to their children, not to mention the immunities passed on in breast milk.

To birth a child in a sterile vat, they would likely need to be kept in a bubble the rest of their lives too.