Artificial wombs promise to change that trajectory, saving more babies and sparing more parents from grief. But growing a child outside the body also cuts to the core of how people imagine pregnancy and parenthood.
"This kind of device would create a new stage of human development, something we've never had to describe or regulate before," says Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, a medical law scholar at Durham University.
In this way, artificial wombs tug at a taut tightrope of questions that scientists, bioethicists and legal experts are scrambling to cross before human trials begin: how will this technology affect the ways we intervene in preserving life, or how we define life itself?…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/baby-alive-outside-womb
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