American Buddhist Net

I pretty much agree with your assessment about having babies outside the womb. Maybe the day will come (and soon) when people can rent or buy "home incubators" and watch the process happen in their own living rooms. In the Pureland people are born from lotus flowers, so there could be a sales angle there for Buddhist customers, many of whom would want lotus flower-shaped incubators. Possibly some of them could be made to float in pools in warm climates. Competition for good fengshui spots might occur in cities, especially in China, but this might also lead to some good results, as it would boost the rental market for small plots near waterfalls, beaches, or on south-facing mountain slopes. I am not sure if Christians would take to an "immaculate" sort of "conception" process of getting the incubator incubated, so to speak, but it is within the realm of the possible that after a decade or two, when the process was seen as "normal", that Christians would find a sort of spiritual comfort in a practice like that that "imitated" their founder in a novel way. Perhaps laser beams could be used to introduce the tiny generative elements to each other while glorious pipe organ music played. This might also be a good way to work with clones, as being "reborn" in this way would then serve as a more profound "model" for the original self, who though older, might still live for many decades beyond what we now can expect, as I am sure these incubators would also be good for body-parts.