How to know when you've crossed over to full, freakin' paranoia?? When you read an article like this & immediately envision #Christofascist legislation to grow "abandoned" frozen embryos via artificial wombs so they can become neglected, traumatized kids--oops, I mean properly-educated RW voters. Voila... the next anti-abortion tool. 🤦♀️
I def need a day away from the computer.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/12/1241895501/artificial-womb-premature-birth
HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Desert Dweller • • •HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Desert Dweller • • •I can top this up, I think:
"Today, it's a pig fetus that Haller and his colleagues will be using to test their artificial womb. But their hope is that someday, technology like this will help humans survive extremely premature birth and avoid serious complications, such as blindness and permanent damage to lungs and brains."
If this becomes a mature technology, the MAGA fascist can realize the #GOPHandmaidsTale without needing handmaids. Women will become obsolete, at least in their...
HistoPol (#HP)
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...quest of "counterbalancing" the imagined effects of the "#GreatReplacementTheory."
Reality would be even worse than #SciFi: #MargaretAtwood's #TheHandmaidsTale or #AldousHuxley's #BraveNewWorld.
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Desert Dweller
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •Prob will have more thoughts on this when I'm not quite as tired as I am right now.
HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Desert Dweller • • •#ArtificialWombs #Ethics #Biotechnology #ReproductiveTechnology
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Where to start?
Humanity, as well as Earth, don't need this "reproductive machine" envisioned in the classic son, "In The Year 2525"*. Not only the ethical implications are disastrous.
Many richer people will be able to pretty much procreate as they like, combined with existing technologies like #IVF.
Super soldiers of the type of #CaptainAmerica could be mass-produced without much...
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https://youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic
Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525
YouTubeHistoPol (#HP)
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...restraints.
AFAIC, birth by a non-mother of this type will, however, also have adverse impacts on the child's immune system, similar to the one's born through a #CesareanSection:
"The results of the studies included indicated that children delivered by cesarean section more commonly developed respiratory tract infections, obesity...
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7662709/
Pediatrics Consequences of Caesarean Section—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
PubMed Central (PMC)HistoPol (#HP)
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...and the manifestations of asthma than children delivered vaginally." 2)
And the likelihood of serious mental-health issues, just taking as pars pro toto the doubts of many adopted children about their biologic "real" mother.
And then let's get back to Earth 🌎. This planet doesn’t need any more specimen of the type homo sapiens (or its mutations.) The current #ClimateCrisis can easily be attributed to a sole...
HistoPol (#HP)
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...factor, #overpopulation. Earth has been hit by the shockwaves of a #PopulationBomb and is suffering from the explosion's fallout of currently 8 billion people. We have been in #overshoot for decades and are all living on borrowed time, the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity of #Earth. 4)
A mass #Ex
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...factor, #overpopulation. Earth has been hit by the shockwaves of a #PopulationBomb and is suffering from the explosion's fallout of currently 8 billion people. We have been in #overshoot for decades and are all living on borrowed time, the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity of #Earth. 4)
A mass #ExtinctionLevelEvent (#ELE) began decades ago, and species are...
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047736480954983
HistoPol (#HP)
2024-03-06 08:12:55
HistoPol (#HP)
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...disappearing at a breathtaking rate.
And then there is also yet another ethical dimension, that of #fascist #eugenics. Who decides who will live or what will be procreated #IVF and then carried to term by an #ArtificialWomb?
#Humanity has already messed around enough with #evolution. Some combinations of the human #genome might simply not be meant to...
HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •#ArtificialWombs #Ethics #Biotechnology #ReproductiveTechnology
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...produce offspring. Once again, humankind is attempting to play God.
I hardly ever say this, but no, humanity and Earth do not only need this new technology, quite the opposite is true: any such scientific endeavor to create an #ArtificialWomb should be strictly prohibited and severely punished.
I am under no illusion that my opinion will be influential enough to become mainstream.
Humanity in...
HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •#ArtificialWombs #Ethics #Biotechnology #ReproductiveTechnology
...the field of science is like #Goethe's #SorcerersApprentice. 6) Anything must be tested:
"That old sorcerer has vanished
And for once has gone away! Spirits called by him, now banished,
My commands shall soon obey..."
#Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb showed the way.
Only in contrast to the poem, there will be no sorcerer to save humanity from its hubris.
6)
https://sorcerers-apprentice.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_(poem)
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (poem)
Contributors to The Sorcerer's Apprentice Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)Desert Dweller
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •Mostly I agree, even as a person who lost a daughter at 26wks--long time ago, but could she have been saved this way? I don't know. SHOULD she have been saved if this tech had been available then? It's impossible to answer that from my point of view, but the overarching one? Probably not.
HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Desert Dweller • • •This #ArtificialWomb has the potential to be a human-destiny changing technology, but from a population perspective, not in a good sense. This is why it should be left alone.
Oh, and no, you are not being paranoid at all: this tech is a cleat and present danger even in politically more moderate circumstances.
With a potential fascist takeover in the US in 2025, it becomes dangerous.
Sampath Pāṇini ®
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HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Sampath Pāṇini ® • • •@paninid
Oh, yes, absolutely! I remember that diagram.
Only that it should be 3D!
The intersections of the stories follow an exponentially adverse development path.
https://mastodon.world/@paninid/112261597501941973
@jnye
Sampath Pāṇini ®
2024-04-13 02:40:36