EGALITARIANISM AND PUBLIC FUNDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECTOGENESIS
In: Public affairs quarterly: PAQ ; philosophical studies of public policy issues, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 247-268
ISSN: 2152-0542
Abstract
Anna Smajdor claims that one means of addressing the declining fertility rate of Western countries is to develop artificial womb technology and to provide widespread access to this technology. Smajdor claims that Ronald Dworkin's resource egalitarianism justifies this approach. In this essay, I argue that Dworkin's resource egalitarianism does not justify the development of artificial womb technology. I furthermore claim that we must examine a variety of issues, including how the presence of artificial womb technology will affect society, before developing this technology.