The reason this comes up is because I was reading Imp1 comments and replies to them and he’s mentioned multiple times before that he believes that the actual answer to a lot of this is making artificial wombs so that you can cut out women from making kids and relationships with women have to be about something else. That would mean that since women can't use their wombs as a bargaining tool, their intellect and personalities have to be what keeps a man interested, at least imo, and I can see why it would appeal to him, but are they even reasonable?
I haven't done the research myself and thought it would be more fun to have a discussion over it, but still, I’m just curious as to how the tech works if at all. I've seen things where the tech is being “suppressed” (hidden from the public like a lot of current tech we use today was during the Cold War, ala the internet), but is that true, or not? It's just genuinely an interesting topic to me.
No, not going to be viable for a while.
Growing a full grown human being in a highly controlled lab would be exceedingly difficult, and would require regular maintenance and changes depending on the age of the baby.
An artificial womb would have to be all that, and portable. It's just not gonna happen except maybe at a later date in this century.
We're probably going to have economic nuclear fusion or a cure for deafness before we get to a practical version of an artificial womb that doesn't at least need to be integrated with a human female.
And that's being a long way from simple viability. It's almost certainly not going to be on par with an actual human womb for even longer than that, fine tuning details on hormonal feedback loops and getting all the other minutiae right is another towering task that will take years longer.
In the interim artificial womb babies will be more prone to being sickly or have on average worse cognitive development, which almost no-one with half a clue or care will want to risk.