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