Fetal Lambs Kept Alive Inside Artificial Uterus

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Doctors have succeeded in keeping lamb fetuses alive for weeks inside plastic sacks of amniotic fluid, a technology they believe could one day help premature human babies survive. What do you think?


“I always assumed we’d replace women with something slightly more high-tech than a plastic sack.”

Devin Prokash • Patent Reader

“The real question is how these animals will develop if they grow up believing their mother is a bag of hot water.”

Craig Bethea • Systems Analyst

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“Whatever they have to do to keep that lamb meat nice and tender.”

Christine Munn • Deck Sander