Artificial wombs promise to give people a way to have biological children without putting their own health at risk.

The article talks about the possibility of creating artificial wombs capable of supporting humans across the full nine months of development. It also mentions that even if scientists are able to overcome the scientific hurdles and create artificial wombs capable of supporting humans across the full nine months of development, society might reject them. It also discusses how artificial wombs will alter the relationship between men, women, and fetuses such that reproduction is effectively ‘degendered’.