Aimed at Convenience, Artificial Gestation Would Be Unethical Human Experimentation

Efforts continue to permit human gestation outside a woman's body. Machines could save the lives of premature babies and the like. Splendid. Extreme circumstances sometimes require extreme measures.

But if artificial gestation became a route from the point of implantation -- at about ten days -- used for the sake of convenience or to surmount nature, that would be a real problem. Discover Magazine's blog "The Crux" has a list of potential uses:

Advances in reproductive technology may radical...