Kathy, You wrote... "...I have been contemplating writing a short story about some time in the future when artificial utereruses are perfected for human babies and no one has to be pregnant at all..." It has already be written----Brave New World by Aldus (sp?) Huxley. I read it in highschool. Scared me then and more so now. Babies grow in bottles. Only the "primitive" actually give birth. Of course, I'd still read your version. :) Aloha, Gloria Thai LLLLeader Hawai'i