Is pregnancy barbaric?

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Thread at Feministe, on comments by radical feminist Shulamith Firestone in 1970. Comments spend a fair amount of time discussing Bujold, which warms my heart. One poster wonders if one's gut reaction toward uterine replicators (Bujold) or exowombs (Transhuman Space) is governed by prior exposure to Brave New World vs. Bujold.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

Interesting thread, but somewhat disappointing at how many people seemed to think that exowombs would be more barbaric or in some other technophobic way worse than normal pregnancy. OTOH, I am equally certain that once exowombs are developed (and from what I've read they are both inevitable and the very first models are likely to exist in the next decade or so, and someone puts a good ad campaign behind popularizing them, natural pregnancy will become an option chosen only by eccentrics and the poor.