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19 Supremo Amicus 421 (2020)
Artificial Womb - Creme de la Creme to Extricate Premature Babies?

handle is hein.journals/supami19 and id is 433 raw text is: SUPREMO AMICUS VOLUME 19 ISSN: 2456-9704 ARTIFICIAL WOMB - CREME DE LA CREME TO EXTRICATE PREMATURE BABIES? By S. Aparna and G.Srividhya Iyer From SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu ABSTRACT A fetus grown in an extracorporeal environment - a thought that cannot be comprehended by a layman, whereas the 21 s-century technology repeatedly proves to be ahead of perceived reality. It is depressing to acknowledge the fact that India, a developing country, has the highest number of premature deaths and such deaths in the NICUs-Neonatal Intensive Care Units are predominantly due to infections affecting the underdeveloped immune system of the premature babies. Thus, AWT- Artificial Womb Technology can be a robust pinch hitter for NICUs a few decades from now. Hitherto, India has not been vocal about research on AWT. For serving this purpose, this paper contributes a Model Act to regulate research on AWT with the cardinal aim of saving the lives of premature babies. To further research, the paper suggests aborted fetuses as the research subjects. The researchers of this paper have provided categorical reasons as to why aborted fetuses are preferred as the research subjects. AWT research is indeed a double-edged sword but the fact that India has to mitigate the death rate of premature babies cannot be ignored. Medico-legal experts have critically opined that partial ectogenesis has potentiality in the artificial womb. In light of this statement, the Model Act provided in this paper envelops partial ectogenesis. Keywords: AWT, NICU, premature deaths, aborted fetuses, partial ectogenesis. 1. INTRODUCTION The Artificial Womb is a replica of the female uterus in an extracorporeal environment and is designed for Ectogenesis- the growth of the fetus outside the mother's body. It is an invention in progress that does not construe a founder and acknowledges the cumulative efforts of many minds that have led to the present developmental stage. It is a concept that Emanuel M. Greenberg had solidified into research and futuristic writing in the 1920s. The artificial womb is still a concept that is foreign to a common man and will still be reciprocated the same, ten years from now. Hope always floats among the researchers indulging in AWT research, an invention that is positively looked forwarded to be used as a savior for struggling human fetuses that are on the brink of death due to lack of peak technology like the artificial womb. Research that has taken so many decades and is yet in the development stage might prove to be a costly affair but belief exists that it may become affordable- a few years down the lane. PIF 6.242 www.supremoamicus.org 421

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