This machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb. How will the world decide to use it?

<p>For parents who have buried infants born too soon, a device like the AquaWomb is a miracle in waiting – and an impossible choice</p><p>Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her body before she felt remotely ready. She knew, with a mother’s pit-of-the-stomach intuition, that her baby was not ready either.</p><p>At just 23 weeks of gestation, her son teetered on the cliff edge of viability, the fragile threshold where modern medicine offers any promise of keeping babies alive.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/baby-alive-outside-womb">Continue reading...</a>