High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the field of ectogenesis, an artificial uterus (or womb) is a mechanism that is used to grow an embryo or fetus outside of the body of a female organism that would normally internally carry the embryo or fetus to term. An artificial uterus, as a replacement organ, could be used to assist women with damaged or diseased uteri to avail the fetus to be conceived to term. It also has the potential to move the threshold of fetal viability to a much earlier stage of pregnancy. This would have implications for the ongoing controversy regarding human reproductive rights, for example by potentially allowing a woman to have an abortion without ending the life of the fetus.

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