Until today, I had not considered the potential impact of cyborg uteruses on the Supreme Court’s willingness to maintain a meaningful right to an abortion.
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I don’t see how that would impact their decisions at all. Kennedy clearly sees no abortion restricting legislation as too extreme. Casey altered the standard for analyzing restrictions on the right to an abortion, and established a “standard” that is essentially meaningless.
From Carehart I, to Carhart II, Kennedy hasn’t found a restriction too extreme. I suspect if those recent decisions in Texas come up the pipeline, Kennedy will uphold those restrictions, too.
“Kennedy claimed this type of law was allowed by their ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which allowed laws to preserve prenatal life to a certain extent. He called Sandra Day O’Connor’s behavior a “repudiation” of the understandings and assurances given in Casey.”
Really, Kennedy? Because no one seems to know what, exactly, Casey established except that Roe is upheld in name only, except spousal notification laws.
“Cyborg uteruses” should take care of the problem of human beings not reproducing fast enough. Perhaps they’ll test it first on endangered mammals.
Fetal viability should never have been an issue. The ruling from the beginning should have been that this was not a decision that the government should be involved in at all in any way. The succeeding 40 years of political mess are a sure testament of that.
The issue is whether religious groups can bind people outside of their own communities.
The other issue is that the very groups that seek legislation also pursue policies that increase the likelihood of women seeking abortions.
A Supreme Court with some serious philosophical chops should redecide Roe v. Wade. This Supreme Court isn’t that one unless there is one huge act of grace descending on certain of its members.
Cyborg uteruses only deal with healthy fetuses. The nitwit legislators have now gotten into criminalizing natural miscarriages, which cyborg fetuses are not likely to help.
Correction: cyborg uteruses in second instance
Brave New World!
I’m GLAD I’m a Delta!
In the science fiction worlds I follow, like Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series, the ability to have children without actually carrying them for 9 months is a win for women. More freedom during pregnancy, safer for the fetus.
Would be super disconcerting if someone grew your fetus without your consent. And what about all those frozen zygotes?
You mean the “snowflake babies”? They would have a right to life also. We’d have such a population explosion that we’d need more wars or epidemics to deal with it. Just where the Right wants us, back in the Middle Ages.
More freedom during pregnancy, safer for the fetus.
Would it be cheaper and safer than hiring a surrogate? (The wealthy/elites are always the early adopters of time saving new tech or innovations. For close to a thousand years, gestation has been the only critical role of super-elite women in the creation/maintenance of the dynasty. Relieve them of that and they’ll have more time and energy for charity balls.
Would only need a few women — those deemed genetically superior, of course — to produce the eggs. The queens. And like the bees, the surplus females would be the worker bees, aka drones.
Technology doesn’t stay in the realm of the super-elite for long, maybe a generation or so?
That depends. Wet nurses remained a privilege of elite women for hundreds (thousands?) of years. Baby bottles haven’t been around that long and weren’t affordable for the working poor for long after that. Infant formula is even more recent.
In vitro fertilization and surrogacy aren’t available to those without financial means.
Often the tech that becomes available to all isn’t of the same quality or caliber as what the elites get.
Peter Drucker — management guru — claimed that from tech invention to widespread use, it was twenty years. That seems about right for the past 150 years.
I’ve been using the term Steel Womb for at least a decade.