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By Claire Horn<\/p>\n

Like other academics who write about artificial wombs, much of the work I\u2019ve done in the last few years has required me to operate at least in part on a speculative level, tracing the problems that present themselves in our contemporary context to understand what the impact of this technology in development might be. As its recurring presence in sci-fi, feminist fantasy, and sensationalized popular media coverage demonstrate, the artificial womb holds enduring allure as a tool for imagining what the future could look like.<\/p>\n

This is a moment that should make painfully evident to anyone who supposed otherwise that technologies in and of themselves cannot create social change or act in the service of justice. I wrote about gender, gestation, and ectogenesis before lockdown began in the UK, and before I myself got sick. But it remains as true now as it was two months ago that the possibility of a future in which gender is disentangled from gestation does not lie with the introduction of artificial womb technologies, but with protecting self-determination for all pregnant people. The arc of history shows us that in times of large-scale crisis, in times of fear and sickness and uncertainty, spaces of powerful social change can emerge. Like so many others, my hope is that we will refuse to accept a return to \u201cnormal\u201d, to the injustices and inequalities that have long constituted the world we live in, and that we build our way toward a future more worthy of our imaginations.<\/p>\n

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Paper title:<\/strong> Gender, Gestation, and Ectogenesis: Self-determination for Pregnant People Ahead of Artificial Wombs<\/a><\/p>\n

Author:<\/strong> Claire Horn<\/p>\n

Affiliations:<\/strong> Birkbeck School of Law<\/p>\n

Competing interests:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n

Social media accounts of post author(s):<\/strong> @clairemlhorn<\/a><\/p>\n

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