section_path: Research and development
section_name: Research and development
paragraph_text: Research and development
  
  The use of artificial wombs was first termed ectogenesis by British-Indian pioneer JBS Haldane in 1923.
  
  Specifying related terminology, one paper determines:
  
  "A potential, though remotely possible, application of the technology is ‘complete ectogenesis’ – complete gestation outside the human body. This will greatly affect the substantiated human involvement during gestation, making it an extracorporeal event and thus completely transforming the conventional notion of pregnancy."