Video of a lamb fetus in an artificial womb

I wouldn’t necessarily trust Papa Patriarch’s House o’ Lawmakin’ and Good Old Boys to deliver on this; but it also opens the “Well, if it’s so ‘viable outside the mother’; consider it evicted.” argument:

At present, the only argument(that doesn’t immediately boil down to ‘because sluts should suffer, obviously’) in favor of allowing a fetus to remain over the mother’s objections is that you have to kill it in order to remove it. If you can just remove it, arguments for why The Sanctity of Life™, Daddy’s frustrated parental interests, etc. preclude doing so become a bit trickier to advance.

Plus, since the axolotl tanks will inevitably be fairly pricey; we’ll have an exciting chance to see who loves fetuses a whole lot when they can be made somebody’ else’s problem; and who loves them in an ‘economists talking about revealed preference’ sense. I…suspect…that more than a few people will be way less interested in fetuses that don’t include a free uterus conscript.

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