@klaus said in C-Sections:
@axtremus said in C-Sections:
children without in-utero “maternal bonding” with their postpartum caretakers also grow up just fine
I believe there's some hard data that, on average, biological parents correlate with the best outcome for the children.
A simple example is child abuse. Statistically, it is way more likely to occur with non-biological parents.
Note that “biological parents” are not precluded from taking advantage of “artificial wombs,” should such a tool be perfected. There exists a scenario where the biological parents can still be the ones raising their biological children with whom they never had in-utero maternal bonding. (Even in the present, “surrogate pregnancies” create such scenarios; so chances are good that we will have lots of good data on this by the time we perfect the artificial womb technology.)
Without that scenario, it comes down to whether the benefits of in-utero maternal bonding is more valued than the elimination of the risk, pain, and inconveniences of pregnancies. Even then it seems quite likely that a large enough population will decide in favor of using the artificial wombs (perhaps a bit like deciding to use formulae rather than breast milk even after examining all the evidence showing breast milk’s comparative advantages).
