LETTER TO THE EDITOR REGARDING “ARTIFICIAL WOMB TECHNOLOGIES-INNOVATION AT THE EDGE OF VIABILITY: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS”

Jennifer Paul et al. claim that artificial womb technology (or “AWT”) aims “to extend fetal development ex utero” by “replicating the intrauterine environment” outside of the maternal body.[1] The legal and moral status of subjects within AWs has been debated, though Paul et al.’s presentation of these issues is inaccurate. They claim, for example, that subjects within AWs “occupy a legal gray zone, with unclear entitlement to care, protection, or representation.”[1] Under United States law, this is false.