Conclusion

Romanis, Elizabeth Chloe

doi:10.1093/9780191986574.003.0008

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8 Conclusion

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December 2024

Abstract

This chapter summarizes key themes that emerge in the analysis of technologies enabling gestation undertaken in all the chapters of this book. Novel gestations are exciting prospects. Technologies enabling gestation, and the fundamental shifts in the modalities of gestation that they make possible, require a careful conceptual analysis of procreative ‘facts’ that have been taken for granted, and also how we describe these ‘facts’. Looking at technologies enabling technologies as a genus requires the asking of questions about the very nature of gestation and what it means—in legal, social, and political terms—since different modalities of gestation are possible. Gestation beyond bodies assigned female at birth, and beyond bodies at all, could challenge our preconceptions about so many fundamental aspects of our social lives including our identities and our conceptions of relatedness and parenthood. However, the transformative potential of these technologies—in how they may enhance the procreative possibilities for individuals in different and new ways—is, and will be, limited by social and legal regulation that limits their emancipatory potential. Imagining the possibilities of uterus transplantation and ectogestation in contemporary contexts reveals how biological essentialism is the fault line that underpins procreative regulation in England and Wales and, as such, has created significant friction and limitation where new procreative technologies that could challenge cis-heteronormative nuclear family models come into being.

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