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Record W4416598135 · doi:10.1177/1357034x251386973

The Artificial Womb: Foetal Personhood and Reproductive Futures

2025· article· en· W4416598135 on OpenAlexafffund
Claire Horn

Bibliographic record

VenueBody & Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicReproductive Health and Technologies
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
FundersKillam Trusts
KeywordsPersonhoodFutures contractPerspective (graphical)Reproductive technologyProcess (computing)Reproduction

Abstract

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Artificial womb technology intended to simulate the environment of the uterus to allow extremely preterm babies to continue to develop as though they had not yet been born is on the horizon. Emerging theoretical and clinical literature that explores how this technology may impact pregnancy and birth has centred the perspective of the foetus/neonate. This article situates the hyperfocus on the foetus that characterises these works within the construction of birth in law, clinical practice, and society as something that happens to a baby (‘being born’). Contesting a foeto-centric worldview, this article theorises ‘giving birth’ as action. Discourses surrounding the promissory artificial womb illuminate embedded assumptions about what it is to be born. By reconceptualising artificial wombs through the lens of giving birth, this article argues for a reproductive future in which legal and medical frameworks are formulated around birth as an active process and complex experience.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.315
Threshold uncertainty score0.474

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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