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Exploring the Future of Reproductive Technology: The Case for Ectogenesis
Challenging Traditional Reproduction
Brit Benjamin, a songwriter, law lecturer, and advocate for reproductive biotechnology, boldly challenges conventional notions of childbirth. She introduces the idea that human babies could—and arguably should—be gestated outside the human body, in machines, through a process known as ectogenesis. This concept, heretical to some, envisions full removal of reproduction from the biological constraints of the maternal body, leading to profound ethical, social, and technological debates.