Could technology make the abortion debate moot?

[SheilaT]

6. Would this be presented as an actual choice?

I'm guessing that a lot of planned pregnancies would wind up in the artificial womb.

Meanwhile, who would be responsible for the baby that results when a woman has an "abortion" this way? Is it still her child? Is she going to be stuck with raising it? In that case, all you've done is removed the 9 months of pregnancy and the giving birth part.

How about handing the infant over to the father, whoever he is?

One real huge enormous gigantic aspect of abortion and a woman's right to control her body and her destiny, is that men, the ones who get women pregnant, are almost totally off the hook. THEY don't get pregnant. THEY don't get to spend nine months incubating the fetus. THEY don't get the joys of childbirth. And yet THEY think they can tell us women what to do.

And yes, the right to choose includes the right to terminate the fetus.

Can't you just see if this actually comes about, it will be hailed as the solution to the abortion problem? I can see it now. A woman is raped. She gets pregnant. She elects this technology. Then she gets a huge bill for the gestation and birth of this unwanted baby.

No, thank you. I sincerely hope this turns out to be more difficult than they think.