Are Womb Transplants The Next Frontier In Fertility?

Politics Daily:

Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estimate they could do their first successful transplant within two years.

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Comments

[thepoliticalcat]

It'll be a cold day in hell before all the men rushing to "save teh babies," or fetii, rather, will consider carrying such fetii to term in their own bodies - now that they can do it.

[wired]

Science is being allowed to turn humans into spare part bio-objects. No dignity there.

[jessicadevyn]

Just another way to make more Octomoms and John and Kate plus 8. Don't you just love society?

[thepoliticalcat]

Disgusting. If people are having difficulty reproducing, it's because God or Mother Nature or whatever they want to call it DOESN'T want them to reproduce! Why does everybody need a mini-Me?

[MountPanic]

ADOPT, jack@sses!

Robble-robble-robble... The stupidity of this infuriates me so completely that I can't even rant properly.

[zanzig]

I agree 100% with you. The utter obscenity of this kind of action when they are hungry and abused children who could be rescued makes me ill.

[XCITIZEN]

So, does the womb come from a dead person? Sounds disgusting to me. Hey, this one's dead, let's harvest her reproductive organs so we can make more babies, because there are not enough babies in the world, it's ok to deny gays civil rights, but nobody should be denied the chance to have babies even with reproductive organs harvested from a dead body. Oh no, that would be a violation of their rights. Am I understanding this correctly?

I'm sure impoverished women across the world will be giving their reproductive organs so that rich women in western countries can experience the joys of childbirth.

[Idea1013]

We live in an overpopulated society, filled with people who think breeding is either the best way to gain unconditional love or is g-d's divine will. We have gone too far with these extreme fertilization measures and it needs to stop. Though breeding is a right, it is not Providence and should not be treated as such.

[onechord]

some think of it as "soul production".

[Tyrione]

Please I hope not.

Nature and the Human Genome specifically weeds out bad genes and if your body DNA produces the inability to carry to term and/or become pregnant than stop screwing with the gene pooling of Nature an just accept an adoption.

Sound harsh?

Each successive screw up will eventually weaken the species and increase commonality of diseases.

[malodorousgit]

Hasn't that boat already sailed? We've had c-sections and extraordinary pre- and neo-natal care for quite a long time, both of which probably affect the "weeding out" process quite considerably. It seems to me that modern medical technology has to be factored into evolution at this point. We evolved it, and now we are evolving with it.

[TXfemmom]

This is asinine and it would just feed into the neurosis of individuals who think that by carrying a pregnancy they will become someone different or better.

Taking anti-rejection drugs in order to have a uterus transplant strikes me as being down right unethical for the medical community to condone. I can see face transplants becaus individuals have difficulty even being part of society with the injuries and deformities involved, arm transplants to aid in being able to care for oneself, and organ transplants, but a uterine transplant? Will testacle transplants be far behind?

[CR46]

In all seriousness I do agree with you. How could anyone or why would anyone want to become pregnant while taking anti-rejection drugs, those would have to affect the fetus.

[XCITIZEN]

I know a few Democrats in Congress who could use a testicle transplant.

[rcasha]

This is not new.

The world's first womb transplant took place in 2002, in Saudi Arabia. Although the transplant was rejected after 3 months, it was still the first successful womb transplant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/mar/07/research.medicalscience
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/saudi-surgeons-announce-first-womb-transplant-653130.html

[brainpower]

Below was meant as reply to CR46- oops.

[brainpower]

LOL! They would have to have access to caesarian surgery, as there would be no other viable "exit strategy" ! ;)

[CR46]

But anything to bring a fetus to term right??!! LOL!!

[henrypapillon]

Howzabout brain transplants?

[robbor]

we are adding a billion people to the planet every 12 years

what would be novel would be to limit population growth, not find another means of producing bodies

[singermuse]

Truth to tell, if I didn't have one I wouldn't want one. Adoption is a better option with so many kids needing a loving family.

[CR46]

All those antichoice men may soon be able to carry a baby to term, won't they all be lining up in the streets for that. A transplant, a few hormones and they will be able to "save" a fetus all by themselves :)

[jessicadevyn]

Ha! I'd LOVE to see that.