Meghan McCain ‘Violently Uncomfortable’ with Scientists ‘Messing with Fetuses’
Reacting to a recent report on artificially made wombs that could exist outside of a woman’s body, Meghan McCain said on Tuesday that the idea makes her “violently uncomfortable.”
“As the token vagina on the set, I will tell you why I have a problem with this,” the TakePark Live host said. “From a feminist perspective, there is something innately [sic] about the fact that I can give birth that separates men from women. … I’m very uncomfortable with the idea of scientists in a lab, messing with embryos, messing with fetuses– again, from a religion aspect of this country… it makes me violently uncomfortable.”
She said artificial wombs would raise concerns about “what conception even means and what life means in this country.”
UPDATE — 1:42 p.m. ET: Self-described “well known futurist” Zoltan Istvan reached out to Mediaite after this post was published to request that his name be added to it. He is the man responsible for the article on artificial wombs, as hyperlinked in this post above. McCain is “slamming the work of a well known futurist, which is fine of course, but at least it would be nice to have my name there so the story is more whole,” Istvan wrote to us in an email.”
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