My Body, My Choice: How Might Artificial Wombs Endanger the Viability Doctrine? Limits to Abortion, Criminalisation and Reconciling the Maternal/Fetal Balance
I. Introduction Scientific research suggests that the implementation of artificial wombs for human fetuses (ectogenesis) is foreseeable within the next few decades,1 having already been used successfully for lamb fetuses.2 However, the current law is ill-equipped to deal with the conflict of rights which will ensue. Ectogenesis will reshape pre-natal viability and procedures, decreasing the mortality rate […]