There are common sense crossovers between a baby inside her mother and a baby in side her artificial womb.

An embryo is an embryo, regardless of whether it is in a mother's body, in an artificial womb, or in a freezer.

A fetus is a fetus whether it is in a biological mother's natural womb, in a surrogate mother's natural womb, or in an artificial womb.

Birth is when the fetus exists the womb and presumably starts to breathe on its own. This can be vaginal delivery, caesarian section, or delivery from an artificial womb.

Humans are humans, regardless of whether they were delivered vaginally, through caesarian section, or were delivered from an artificial womb.

I hope we do not go back to the days of legalized slavery. The USA still has scars from a war that mostly ended slavery. The UK took until 2015 to finish paying off the debt incurred from compensating slave owners when they freed the slaves.

Now of the uncomfortable topic of abortion. I remember an L. Neil Smith book where a woman found herself unintentionally pregnant, and had the baby taken out and stored frozen for a few decades until she was ready to become a mother, then she had the baby incubated in as artificial womb. In a world with that level of technology, where unplanned babies could be incubated in artificial wombs and easily adopted, abortion would serve one of several purposes:

1. Eliminate severely deformed or genetically defective people from society. (I wonder if genetic engineering will raise our collective IQs and athleticism until one day everyone in this conversation would be aborted for being too stupid or too weak to live?)

2. When all the people who want to adopt are overloaded with kids, when all foster care facilities are overflowing, and and the government does not want to raise kids in group homes, eliminating the excess children could be a final solution. I wonder what the long-term economics would be when AIs can raise children very cheaply. Would the children be cheap to raise and very productive, or would they be useless eaters overpopulating a crowded planet? I think contraception is a kinder solution. I would not put it past some authoritarian regime to demand they get to decide what unborn babies are incubated and which are aborted for the purpose of eugenics.

3. Maybe someone just wants to kill a kid? I see posts about wanting to get pregnant to have an abortion for the joy of killing a child on social media, but I have a hard time taking them seriously. I have known people who would take part in a human sacrifice for the fun of it if it was legal. I don't talk to them any more.

I typed this wall of text, and never mentioned clone armies. I'm a failure.