8 futuristic birth scenes that make us question what the future holds
Robot midwives? Men having babies? Unfortunately we don’t have a crystal ball that shows us how pregnancy and giving birth will change in the future. But science fiction has given it a good crack and here are eight scenes from movies and TV shows to get you thinking — or squirming — about what may lie ahead.
Warning: movie and TV show spoilers ahead.
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2. The Island
Surrogates are nothing new, but imagine creating your own personal surrogate in the form of your human clone?! That’s what’s going on here in sci-fi flick, The Island. Sounds great in theory – no health risks, aches, body changes, labour or interruption to your career – but what happens to your clone afterwards? Oh dear.