Zero Gravity Pregnancy

Overview
Due to major advances in technology over the past century, the frontier of space has opened up to the human species. To take advantage of the resources that space has to offer, colonization is a possible solution. However, not everywhere in the universe has the same gravitational field as we do on Earth. For our species to persist in the future, reproduction must take place. This includes conception, pregnancy, and birth.

Pregnancy In Space

Pregnancy in zero gravity faces many unique challenges. Some of them academic, some moral.

(8)    In 2008, a physics student, Hamilton Lucas, at the University of Utah outlined many of these dillemmas.

(9)    In 2006, Transterrestial Musings created a panel comprised of Laura Woodmansee, Vanna Bonta, and Dr. James Logan. This panel addressed many of the questions surrounding conception and pregnancy in space.

(10)   In 2006, Laura Woodmansee published a book titled "Sex In Space". A well known journalist and author, Laura Woodmansee describes many of the obstacles of zero-gravity sex and pregnancy. In Chapter 3, "Making space babies: conception,pregnancy and birth", Ms. Woodmansee addresses issues that many have not thought of.

(11)   In 1995, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore from UCSF published an article in Sociology Perspectives titled, "INSCRIBING BODIES, INSCRIBING THE FUTURE: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space" that (from abstract:) examines the ways in which gender, sex, and reproduction in the U.S. space program are represented as social, cultural, and scientific problems.

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11) Inscribing Bodies, Inscribing the Future: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space
     Monica J. Casper, Lisa Jean Moore
     Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 311-333
View Abstract at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0731-1214(199522)38%3A2%3C311%3AIBITFG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I#abstract

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