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But a baby born inside a woman is natural because it was conceived via the natural process of sexual reproduction. Culturing egg and sperm and then injecting sperm into the egg culture to fertilize it is artificial because this wouldn't happen naturally. Nor would 1 organism carefully building a baby cell by cell. So I think of artificial as being something that has went through a manmade process in the case of making an organism, made from mixing ingredients that don't naturally occur in a product(such as sodium benzoate for preservation) with the natural part of the product(such as fruit juices) in the case of food, or something completely synthetic(in other words it does not have any natural component).

It is artificial because it is as if you built it cell by cell. Also identical babies are much more likely in an artificial womb.

Sure adopted children are fine but artificially made children are not. And yes my argument is that our understanding of gestation is insufficient for reproducing a healthy pregnancy. I mean if you think "Oh the baby needs a lot of glucose because it is very active" and give it a lot of glucose you might end up with fetal diabetes, that is diabetes in the fetus. If you were to assign it as type I or type II it would probably be type II because the fetus gains weight. But then again it is also likely to be type I because that often occurs in young people. A baby being born with diabetes is much much worse than an adult diagnosed with diabetes because the baby can't control its diabetes. So it could easily cause the baby to be blind as an adult or have end stage kidney failure when it goes to college(that is if it goes to college). It could also cause acidosis in the baby which is even worse because if that goes far enough without taking something to raise alkalinity it could cause autodigestion of the blood vessels which could make it bleed to death. If you give it a lot of fat the fetus will go through ketosis. This could cause the fetus to be underweight and not very healthy at all because of fat reserves being depleted. If you give it a lot of protein it would be healthiest out of all the nutrients that have calories because it would build muscle in the fetus. A muscular baby is much better than a diabetic baby or a baby that has went through ketosis.

I honestly don't like the idea of artificial wombs for anything other than cultured egg and sperm cells. For naturally occuring ones that are still in people's bodies I think that artificial wombs should not be used. While there is a risk of falling the baby is not likely to be injured because of the amniotic fluid and even then it is likely little tiny muscle tears due to it using its muscles a lot. If you fall during labor than the baby can be injured even more severely such as fractures. Oxytocin levels rise when the breasts start producing colostrum and in active labor. This is also known as the love hormone and is what makes mothers have such strong bonds to their children even if their children don't have strong bonds to their moms. This also makes it possible to breastfeed along with the prolactin that is produced every menstrual cycle. This prolactin and oxytocin being secreted during every menstrual cycle makes it possible to breastfeed a baby when you haven't been pregnant yet(also known as induced lactation). The extreme nausea is actually to an extent good for the woman. It lowers the amount of calories her body actually gets compared to how many calories she ate so obesity is less likely. It also gets any chemicals out of the stomach and small intestine which is good if you don't want liver failure. Same thing goes for the extreme fatigue. The extreme fatigue is good for the woman because that makes more of her energy, including fat be devoted to the baby and not her own cells which can burn the fat reserves and glycogen that is released from the liver and muscles. In other words glucagon rises without causing anything similar to diabetes because the cells are using that glucose and devoting some to the growing baby. The other symptoms like extreme hunger, abdominal pain, and a higher sensitivity to smells also have their advantages. These advantages outweigh the disadvantages and thus artificial wombs would have more disadvantages and should not be used just to make infertile people have babies. I mean what if the egg splits into 15 eggs(which has actually happened once in a pregnant woman) and you have a really large artificial womb? You are going to get 15 babies of which you can breastfeed a maximum of 6. That is a lot of formula for you to produce, even more than 1 baby would need for a whole day. Not to mention thousands of dollars in diapers and cribs and everything else. To take care of 15 babies and still have enough to buy stuff for yourself and your husband you would need at least $1M in your account. For most people that isn't feasible even for people with high paying jobs such as doctors. So at best artificial wombs should not be used at all.