Artificial womb - fantasy or reality?

Infertility has brought down the planet as a plague. The only difference is that infertile people do not die and for years on end suffer from mental disorders caused by inability to have own child. According to the world statistics, 20% of the world's population cannot get pregnant (having permanent sexual partner). The prevalence of primary infertility among women at the age of 20-35 years is of 6%. These figures are real and they have been increasing from year to year. Today there are solutions of male and female infertility problem. These are surrogacy on own or donor eggs, IVF with donor eggs (semen), ICSI. Using modern methods of reproductive medicine, you can become a parent of a child who will be genetically absolutely your own.

The above mentioned methods of assisted reproduction have been already managed to settle down in the global society, and every year their popularity and usage have been growing. Not all countries have legalized such kind of procedures but infertile couples are not afraid of local bans. They tooth and nail travel to countries where surrogacy and donation are allowed by the law, and successfully carry out programs there. But specialists have taken a step further. Artificial insemination was successfully justified and has a great demand in the modern society. It's time to move on. Artificial womb is “on the agenda". It is expected that in future there will not be a need for surrogate mothers services and carrying a child during 9 months.  

Tokyo researchers have successfully taken goat fetuses and put them in synthetic wombs for continued gestation! The fetuses have stayed in the environment for up to three weeks, but chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Juntendo University in Tokyo, has said that this can be extended or applied to human beings! He believed that, by 2074, human pregnancy would be obsolete and artificial wombs would be the norm.

One of the positives that come out of this research is that this may be a way to care for preemie babies in the future. Micro-preemies could potentially be placed directly from a human womb to an artificial womb if the pregnancy is ending early due to complications. This could be especially beneficial for lung development in babies under 30 weeks.

It may also turn out that artificial wombs provide safer environments than natural wombs which can be invaded by drugs and alcohol from a mother's body. Health insurance companies could actually insist that women opt for the artificial way.

Geneticist of the London College of Aarathi Prasad believes that such method of reproduction may be an option not only for women suffering from infertility, but also for all women, since pregnancy and childbirth, even today, are a risk to the woman's life.

(http://www.newsweek.com/fetuses-artificial-wombs-medical-marvel-or-misogynist-malpractice-263308) Happy Family