Might make me less likely to have an abortion, I suppose, but no, it likely doesn't change my view on whether it should be legal. Especially given how experimental/expensive such technology will be for a long time.

i suppose if we're hypothesizing a unicorn future in which it is equally invasive/easy to incubate a pregnancy as it is to abort and in which qualified people are lining up to pay costs and adopt these incubator babies, a case could be made for not allowing abortion.

In this scenario, is the government going to ensure that the baby has adequate financial support, or will we be forgetting about them as soon as they are born in this scenario, too?

Anonymous wrote:If technology developed to a point where a fetus could survive outside the womb (or presumably in some kind of artificial womb) essentially from conception would that impact your position on abortion?

Just curious how the issue/debate could evolve down the road.

How do you get the baby out of the womb and into the petrie dish? She still has to consent to a medical procedure.

I would agree that a woman has no more right to "abort" a test tube baby than the bio dad does. Or, that she has the same right to do so as he does.

However, in the scenario I think you are talking about, you still have to get the baby out of her in a way that it survives. If she doesn't consent to that, that's her call, no matter the technology.

I don't know why you people find it necessary to argue about this "broken bond" nonsense. Both adopted babies and babies in other people's care are fine. Stop with the nonsense.

You broke the bond when you wouldn't shut up about the fact that the child is adopted. Your obsession with "research" (whatever goes for research in this area) is crazy.

Still totally pro-choice, pro-mom.

Anonymous wrote:If technology developed to a point where a fetus could survive outside the womb (or presumably in some kind of artificial womb) essentially from conception would that impact your position on abortion?

Just curious how the issue/debate could evolve down the road.

Nope. It might impact my decision to have more children (have difficult pregnancies). But I don't want my genetic children raised by other people.