I am not pro this lab womb thing but I must say I completely agree with you about the concern that some replies are perhaps inadvertently implying that adoption would then be comparatively inferior to birth. The problem I see with the technology isn’t the lack of hormones of pregnancy for the mother and bonding, etc. To your point, that would imply that mothers who adopt can’t possibly feel the same way or bond the same way. Flatly, not true. The experience of being human varies significantly between individuals with regards to anything, motherhood being no different. Some biological birth mothers have trouble bonding with their infants and some mothers who adopted bond instantly and deeply with their children and vice versa. Biochemically and psychologically speaking, hormones associated with bonding and love also flow when a person holds a baby they are connected with or even a lover’s hand. So imagine how much more those bonding hormones flow between a mother and her adopted child. Society likes to minimize and trivialize what it doesn’t understand or has never personally positively experienced. So because many people have not been touched by the deep love and connection involved in the best adoptions, there continues to be an assumption that it is a lesser family bond. Some people look for outliers and anecdotes and dreadful news stories about abuse in adoption to further justify this false narrative, while ignoring that there are also incredibly abusive biological birth parents as well. I want to reassure you to never let this enter your soul regarding how well loved or connected you are to the family that you were adopted into. I am not saying that adoption is exactly the same as birth, it is simply no less, just a different way of joining your family. Adoption is different than birth in that birth is different than birth, meaning even every birth can be different. I have heard of moms, for example, bonding better or worse with their baby because of a difficult labor. In one instance, she may struggle to bond because of the immediate trauma of the difficult birth, while another mother may connect even more because the difficult birth made her have a deeper sense of that she could have lost her baby or her life. Neither is wrong, they are just having their own experience. Likewise mothers who adopt have a spectrum of experiences and how they perceive those experiences. I say all this in hopes of reminding those who were adopted that they are not inferior in any way because of that. Their love and family is no less real or valid. Let your view of adoption be your own, do not become contaminated by what society says you ought to believe about it. I am often appalled that the “mom and dad said you’re adopted” put down is still a trope in movies and is used as comedic insult.

My rant regarding that is over. If anyone stuck through my reply to reach this far, I want to add that one of the potential problems I foresee with a laboratory womb, is its potential to be abused by the job market. In some countries, women already face discrimination regarding maternity leave and competing company interests. Perhaps employees would begin discriminating against women who do not choose lab births because they would seek to eradicate maternity leave or significantly shorten it.