What happens when technology designed to save premature babies begins to make pregnancy itself seem optional? In this episode, Samantha Stephenson revisits her 2024 essay Artificial Wombs, Artificial Love and explores what has changed in artificial-womb technology—and what we risk losing if machines begin to replace the maternal womb. From maternal touch and fetal development to surrogacy, genetic selection, and the virtue of parental sacrifice, she asks whether technological progress can ever fully substitute for the embodied reality of pregnancy.

In This Episode

What artificial-womb technology can actually do—and where the research is headed

Why the maternal womb cannot simply be reduced to a mechanical environment

Maternal touch, fetal development, and the ethics of experimentation

Artificial wombs, surrogacy, and the growing desire to eliminate pregnancy

What we lose when we replace the sacrifices of parenthood with technological convenience

Connect with Samantha

🌿 Newsletter: Choosing Human

🎙️ Podcast: Brave New Us

📚 Books:

Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad

The Bellbind Letters

Grow Where You're Planted

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