Artificial wombs, an alternative to abortion:
A friend of mine recently did a good deed.
He is also a US citizen living in the EU and, being sickened by the recent sh*tstorm in the US media about late term abortions, he decided to search a solution instead of fume and weep. Engineers are good like that.
So he wrote an informative and compact copy-and-paste email to several Republican US representatives, assuming they would be more likely to buy in than their Democrat counterparts.
Paraphase of his email:
A new "artificial womb" that was developed in the USA by a researchers team led by fetal surgeon Dr. Alan Flake at the Childrens Hospital of Philedelphia (originally designed as life support prototype for extremely premature babies), may help in your political fight against late term abortions. According to inside sources, the womb could be ready for use for human babies within just 3 years. The trials have already been successful on baby lambs from 4 weeks to term, and suggests these results could be reproduced for human babies from 22 weeks gestation. If so, this could be an alternative for mothers who want a late term abortion (from 20 weeks onwards) but don't want to kill the baby. Although less than 1% of abortions occur after 22 weeks gestation, this alternative could still save thousands of US babies. It is possible that technology will be advanced to support tiny babies from 8 weeks gestation - the time frame during which 35% of abortions in the USA occur. This would change the abortion debates forever. I have already shared this idea with several of my pro-choice and liberal friends, and they are not opposed. Just one month ago Japan released the most premature baby boy (to survive) in history from the Tokyo Hosptial, born at 23 weeks. I do not have any sponsorship with these teams financially or professionally, and all of the information here is publicly available and unclassified. I am just a concerned citizen with a potential soltuion. I will share this potential solution with other Senators and Congress persons, but please share this with your team. Further, if there is some way you can support the research of this team, or other institutions developing similar technology, you should pursue that.
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Did he win you over yet? Would you yourself donate to this institution (whom for the record, spearheads other noble projects too)? Would your liberal friends buy in?
Your US Congress and US Senate representatives are closer at hand than you think. You can Google their contact information on the US Senate and US Congress websites and start the conversation today.
Non-US persons can write and phone too anytime, just be sure to avoid 'elections meddling.'
Image credit: https://gizmodo.com/artificial-wombs-are-getting-better-and-better-1833639606