Why isn’t this on the news? Because it happened in 1996. How close are we today to motherless births? Probably closer than you think.
Many would agree that the act of giving birth is one of the most fundamental human experiences but this paradigm will most likely suffer some changes in the near future. Should such a scenario unfold, it will bring about unprecedented political and social turmoil.
But the concept of ectogenesis (the development of a fetus outside of its mother’s body) is not new. The term was coined in 1924 by British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, who predicted that by 2074, 70 percent of all human pregnancies would be artificial. Despite being a visionary, Haldane couldn’t have foreseen the rapid advancement of technology during the past few decades. If he knew how fast things would evolve, his estimates wouldn’t have been so conservative.
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