Gestaticide: killing the subject of the artificial womb

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The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a ‘gestateling’ by Elizabeth Chloe Romanis—prior to ‘birth’. We describe the act of deliberately killing the gestateling asgestaticideand argue that there are good reasons to maintain that gestaticide is morally equivalent to infanticide, which...

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