The 13 sheep in the new study were created from 2005 to 2007, when biologist Keith Campbell, a key member of the Dolly team, was trying to improve cloning — creating more viable embryos to implant in
the wombs of surrogate mothers, more pregnancies, and more live offspring.
Not only would ectogenesis — the process
of growing a fetus outside a human body in an artificial
womb — save women and babies from those dangers, but just as assisted reproductive means have allowed the rise in fatherless births and
mothers by choice, it would also make it much easier for men — gay, trans, hetero, whatever — to have children without needing a
surrogate.