My concern is the intersection of rightwing natalism with Silicon Valley ideology leading to technological “solutions” involving, essentially, test tube babies. Take women out of the picture entirely. I can especially see a dystopian dynamic involving the “we have to compete with China” or “they’re doing it / about to do it in China” narratives.
And this is bad why, exactly?
Women already don't want to be mothers--and everybody has pushed so hard that being a housewife is bad!--so what's the issue here?
Because children need mothers. Some women may not want to be mothers, but they all had one. Children need fathers too. They need love. When they don’t get love, they turn into fucked up adults.
A "test tube baby" is simply an IVF pregnancy. What is the problem with parents using IVF to conceive?
IVF isn't a problem per se, and it's great that we have those option for prospective parents who want it. But it's unreliable, expensive, and simply not a scalable solution to anything.
That’s a colloquial term for IVF pregnancies but that’s not what I mean. I mean artificial wombs, and all the other technologies downstream from a push to “scale up” procreation: like robots that can raise children.
So the Axlotl tanks from Dune.
Nah, the right wing solution would be replacing prison with compulsory pregnancy. Sufficient numbers of convicts can be created by appropriate laws.
This really shows what a bogeyman the “right wing” is to you! Cartoon villains, basically.
I’d say artificial womb is a technocratic center-left solution. A right-wing solution would be a proverbial “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” for all women.
I, for one, would bet my firstborn that a solution to the demographic question such that fulfills modern sensibilities is to ever be found.