The Consequences of Artificial Wombs
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Summary
In this video, I discuss the implications of artificial womps, the fertility epidemic, and how this technology will affect men in the current anti-marriage climate. I also discuss the dangers of circumcision, and the impact it could have on children.
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This requested video comes from Isaac, who asks that I discuss the consequences of artificial womb technology.
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Now, I'm going to be breaking this video down into four main sections.
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The first is the broader ethical implications of this technology.
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Next is the individual moral consequences of raising, of birthing a child this way.
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Next, I'll address the fertility epidemic, the fact that our birth rates are so low and what effect this may or may not have on that.
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And fourth and finally, I'll be discussing how this will affect men in the present climate of a very anti-male, anti-marriage, throw you in prison if you don't pay child support on time.
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So, to start with, the broader ethical implications.
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Now, the artificial womb is certainly taking reproductive technology a major step forward.
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It's uncertain when we'll have this technology.
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It could be as soon as five years or as long as 40.
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But at that point, you can take frozen eggs and frozen sperm and make your own person out of that.
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And it's not too far removed from that to cloning, to creating vast swaths of people with the exact same DNA.
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Now, of course, all of these questions and all of reproductive technology keeps bringing up the questions of eugenics,
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which is a massive topic all on its own that I don't want to delve into completely here because it is too big.
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We certainly saw what happens when the left wing controls eugenics in the past century.
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And thanks to that, we are very resistant to it, very suspicious of it.
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But even right now, the sort of questions that the artificial womb would bring up,
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to a certain degree, these are questions we're dealing with right now.
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It's a huge problem when in India, they abort female fetuses.
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But for some reason, not such a huge problem here in North America when feminists abort male fetuses, unfortunately.
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You know, being selective about who the father is,
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because of sperm banks, there's cases where one individual will father 50 or even 150 different children,
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usually in the same area, and none of them know that they're related,
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causing possible accidental incest problems later on down the road.
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or as the case may be, we're not dealing with them.
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And the artificial womb would certainly, it would up the ante,
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but it wouldn't really change the nature of the game,
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Realizing that we can now create a person without having a distinct mother or father
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this might be the trigger to really make us start thinking about all of this,
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thinking about the ethical considerations of all of this stuff,
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and hopefully having an intelligent conversation about it.
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because really that's a conversation about eugenics.
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It's as if, if I were talking about electric cars,
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but I'm not going to spend the entire review of an electric car talking about drunk driving.
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I have a very real worry about children that would be grown in an artificial womb.
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That they wouldn't have that experience of bonding with their mother
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And you see, childhood trauma can have a lot of effects down the road.
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If I can find the link for it, I'll put it down below.
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about this poor little girl that just suffered the most terrible, violent molestation you can imagine.
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And as she was growing up, she was a very troubled child because of all of this.
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With extreme violent outbursts, torturing her younger brother.
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And it was so heartbreaking because when you saw this girl, they interviewed her.
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You also saw a human soul that was trying to be better than what her past had been.
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You know, she was turned into a monster, but she was trying not to be.
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But it just really goes to show you how much childhood trauma can affect somebody.
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But then you have cases, you know, the lesser degree,
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and this is something a lot of people don't like to talk about, is circumcision.
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Is taking a knife to a little baby boy's foreskin
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and him screaming in pain to the point where he goes into shock,
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where he stops screaming because his brain literally overloads with pain.
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That's the sort of thing that in all probability does have consequences down the line.
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does lead to an insensitivity towards others, a bruseness, a harshness.
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You know, and what about a baby that was raised in a machine that didn't have a mother singing to it,
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loving it, didn't have that heartbeat, didn't have that attention?
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And what about the mother that never bonded with her infant in that way?
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You know, you can certainly imagine the rich Hollywood celebrity
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that doesn't want to get fat, by which she means pregnant,
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that wants the ease of having an artificial womb.
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I mean, already right now, we're having issues with C-sections.
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They are performing too many C-sections in hospitals.
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When you do C-sections properly, when you think about them and use them only in cases of medical risk,
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they reduce the number of women who die during childbirth.
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more women are dying from the C-sections than would have been dying just from the birth.
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And there's also a bit of a cosmetic angle to the whole thing.
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You know, I could definitely see the artificial wombs having a similar influence,
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You know, on the visceral level, a woman's hormones change when she's pregnant.
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You know, having a pregnant woman makes you that much more attentive and protective.
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You're no longer just a couple of teenagers fooling around.
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Even with the medical technology, psychologically, we're still a million years ago.
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You know, we take care of a pregnant woman in a different way.
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And a mother that's never had this, that's never been able to bond with her child while raising it,
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is, is she going to be as good of a mother as she would have been had she actually become pregnant?
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And finally, there's the issue of how forming a marriage, it really is your first step into adulthood.
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Forming a solid bond with a member of the other sex.
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You see, the two sexes are, now, they're different.
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You know, despite all the propaganda nowadays that men are just as strong as women or women are just as strong as men,
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despite all of that nonsense, the two sexes are incredibly disparate.
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The differences in our nature balance each other out, and marriage, traditionally, at least,
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we're not talking about the modern joke of marriage 2.0, where the entire system tells you, tells her to divorce you at the drop of a hat.
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We're talking about the original conception, what the institution was.
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It was balancing out the competing drives of the two sexes to create a stable household and the foundation of civilization.
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And with the artificial womb, you don't have to have that.
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It seems to, once again, turning children into a lifestyle option, an accoutrement that you add to your life because you're bored or because whatever reason.
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You don't have to first build a strong and stable relationship with somebody that thinks completely differently from you.
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You know, at the end of the day, children require both mothers and fathers.
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That is the ideal circumstances for raising a child.
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That even if, God forbid, one of the parents dies, you know, the mother dies in childbirth or one of them dies while the child is still very young,
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even then, without that role model present, they still have that metaphorical role model.
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They have that image of their father or their mother that they can think of.
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And the remaining parent can say, you know, they loved you very much.
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And they can, you know, you still have an image for how to be.
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And see, a mother that lost a devoted husband or a father that lost a devoted wife is still going to be that mature person that formed a relationship that deeply loved the other sex.
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And even with only the ghost of the person still there, there's still going to be that implication of how men and women are supposed to relate to each other, of, you know, if you're a daughter, what you should look for in a good husband.
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And if you're a son, what you should look for in a good wife.
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With the artificial womb, if the single parents, you're simply not going to have that.
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The gay couples, you're, again, with the gay couples, you don't have those two halves of the human race.
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You've got two men or two women who are both agree on everything.
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They don't have that major, that major disagreement that requires maturity to overcome.
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They can simply be romantically inclined friends.
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And it's not the same thing for a child to grow up without both parents.
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The artificial womb just seems to exacerbate the entire thing.
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Next, let's talk about the fertility crisis right now.
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Now, at present, the birth rates in Western nations are somewhere around 1.4 per couple.
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You know, I don't know what the latest stats are that's a few years old or a few years old.
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But at the end of the day, you need 2.1 children per couple to replace the population.
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So the question is, will these artificial wombs help with this?
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Is this the reproductive technology that will increase our birth rate to a sustainable level?
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If anything, I could see this causing the birth rate to actually go down.
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Now, first of all, we already have a lot of this technology.
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We already have donor eggs and, you know, donor sperm.
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Now, trying to find accurate information on this is extremely difficult.
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I was trying to look up just how many children are produced through IVF
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or how many couples use reproductive therapy to successfully conceive in, you know,
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And I don't know if anybody knows the answer to these questions.
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The first is that the industry is extremely profitable.
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And I don't think there's any interest in finding the accurate information.
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You know, there's no market that you can sell consumer reports to, you know?
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Like, the auto industry obviously doesn't want you to know that their car sucks,
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but there's enough people buying cars that you have auto magazines.
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You shouldn't expect Ford or Chevy to advertise anything
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but what they want to advertise about their car.
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You go to the car magazine to learn if it's a good car or not.
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You don't get this with the reproductive industry just because of the nature of it.
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Nobody thinks they're going to need it until they need it.
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And once they need it, they're too focused on getting the treatment to do a lot of research.
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They're not going to subscribe to a monthly magazine.
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So there's simply no market for finding out this information.
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But there's a second reason I think there's not much information on this
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is because all of this, this entire conversation that we're having right now in this video,
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this undermines the standard lifestyle that women are expected to live.
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Right now, the societal script for women is spend your 20s going to university
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and, you know, play around with a bunch of different guys.
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Then spend your late 20s getting a career and being established and, you know, wearing a power suit.
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Then finally, you know, once your partying days are done,
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around 27, you find a guy that you kind of like and you start to get serious with him.
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And then maybe once you're 33, 35 and you're married and you own a house finally,
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This is the standard lifestyle script that's sold to everybody
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and most people are at least trying to live it.
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You know, as George Carlin said, they call it the American dream
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The reality is that women's fertility starts to drop precipitously by their late 20s.
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From about 16 to 24 is the peak fertility years.
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You know, this is also, there's this myth about women hitting their sexual peak in their 30s.
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It's just in their 30s, they're more desperate for attention
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because they aren't getting approached all the time
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The thing is, a 20-year-old woman is going to be a little minx in the bed
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You know, women's ovaries are screaming at them to reproduce at that age
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but the whole society has indoctrinated them against it
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because we want women getting those useless degrees
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and paying taxes with their corporate jobs, of course.
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And that makes feminists happy that women are equal, apparently,
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because making the same income is what makes you an equal human being,
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Furthermore, there's health benefits for women reproducing when they're young.
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Women that have children when they're young bounce back a lot faster from the pregnancies
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and they also have fewer problems later in life with osteoporosis.
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But evolution designed us to reproduce in our teens and 20s
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and we're holding that off until the age of 30.
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And as a consequence, a lot of couples are finding that they're having trouble reproducing.
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If you sleep with a 20-year-old woman and you don't use a condom,
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it's, what, a 50-50 chance she's going to get knocked up?
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You know, women that age are incredibly fertile.
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By the time you get to 30, you start having major problems,
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not just with maintaining the pregnancy and not losing it,
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And any accurate information about how many people are using reproductive technology right now,
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That would expose the lie that is feminism and all the big money behind it.
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And it certainly wouldn't help the big money that's being made in these industries.
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Just lots of individual actors with their own interest.
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Nobody at the New York Times wants to upset women.
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Nobody's going to look at it because there's no money to be made
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we have to guess at how many people are using reproductive technology.
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We've got some amazing reproductive technologies.
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And women are having children, you know, in their 50s, for God's sakes.
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waking up at midnight when you're 50 years old to take care of an infant.
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Yeah, you know how it's so easy to bounce back from a hangover from your 20s?
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That's because you're supposed to be raising babies during that stage of your life.
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And, you know, these artificial wombs, yes, this would make it easier.
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But it's not going to be a game changer by any means.
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In fact, I would predict that ultimately, this is going to reduce the birth rate.
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Because nobody wants to hear the true information on any of this.
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Nobody actually wants to hear that, yeah, we can give you IVF.
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It's still, you know, very low chance it's going to work.
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And it's going to cost you a few hundred thousand dollars.
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This sort of opportunity, the idea that you can just wait until your late 30s or 40s to have children
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is going to cause people to put off having children when they're younger.
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When, even if you've been married since 25, if you've been married for 10 years and you're 35,
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you've adapted to the, basically you're a bachelor and a bachelorette living with each other on a permanent basis.
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You know, you like going out with your friends on Friday night.
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But the likelihood of you throwing your whole life up in the air at that age to have a child,
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you know, it gets less and less likely by the year.
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So the more people we condition to have, to stave off having children in their 20s,
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because, you know, you can always use the artificial womb,
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Or even if they want to, they'll just say, you know, I'm way too old.
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And let's not forget the costs involved with this stuff.
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Reproductive technology costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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You know, kids are already pretty bloody expensive to begin with.
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Now that you're putting it off for so long, you're adding this huge cost that doesn't need to be there.
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And every economic cost, if you add a cost of $100,000 just to having a child,
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People are going to elect not to have children because of that cost.
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Ultimately, I don't see this helping the reproductive crisis at all.
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If anything, it will be, well, it will probably be neutral for the most part,
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as it encourages people to go against their natural instincts.
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getting married, period, is extremely dangerous.
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you know, higher depending where you're looking,
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And I don't think I need to go into the domestic violence stats with you guys.
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But the majority of these divorces aren't because of any legitimate cause.
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So getting married is a huge, risky settlement.
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Having children doubles up on the amount of risk,
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where if you're late on your child support payments,
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But how exactly you're supposed to make money in prison to pay off the debts,
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But I'm sure a bunch of people make a lot of money prosecuting you when it happens.
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So having children right now is such a huge, risky proposition.
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It's basically one person, you know, the woman,
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has a nuclear button that she can hit at any point.
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So anytime you're having a disagreement on anything,
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that possibility, even if it doesn't get brought up,
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is going to affect the dynamic of the argument.
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So yes, getting married is a terrible, terrible prospect for men.
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There might be a few men that would choose to do it.
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You know, we're talking like maybe one out of a thousand here.
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It's, yeah, in theory this would be good for men.
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And certainly having options is always a good thing.
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But I don't really see it as a game changer to any degree.
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we can have children well up into our 50s or 60s
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It seems that no matter what the technology is,
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the technology can kind of undermine our instincts,
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I mean, like, that way you get to have a doctor