Artificial Wombs Save Preemies, Not Fertility

Ectogenesis is already partial: NICUs sustain 22–26‑week infants and IVF supports embryos for five days, leaving an 18‑week gap to full artificial gestation. Closing that gap would reduce neonatal deaths and complications but won’t make people have more children because fertility decline stems from economics, culture, and incentives, not gestational difficulty. The bigger near‑term impact is on perinatal care and how law treats viability. — This shifts pronatalist tech debates toward realistic benefits (survival, disability reduction, abortion‑viability law) rather than expecting a population rebound from artificial gestation.