uterus transplants now available
Wow! what a story and the real wow is in the details..
A New York hospital plans to offer the nation’s first uterus transplants to enable women who lack a womb because of cancer treatment or other problems to bear children.
The wombs would come from just-deceased donors. Once a uterus is transplanted, it would be removed after the recipient gives birth so she would not have to continue to take anti-rejection drugs.
Okay so the possiblity of a womb transplant is very cool, if I ever needed or wanted one it is good to know of the possibility. Not needing one right now, the details of getting a transplanted uterus froma corpse is kinds spooky.. but at least they can just take it out after 9 months!
I guess now not only do we not need a man, or even have sex to get pregnant, it seems you don’t need a functioning utures anymore as well. It’s almost as if you don’t need people. I think even if you could hatch a baby without a human I would still want a surrogate human before a surrogate machine or lab.
I read somewhere yesterday that the word’s first test tube baby (now a mature adult) had a child. -wild.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
[...] I’ve been sirfing today for random time killers, and found some interesting tidbits along the way. First I came across this post on another gal’s blog about getting a uterus transplant. Sounds crazy I know, but it is a reality, apparently you can get a uterus transplant that gets removed after you use it to hatch a bun in the oven. Wierd. [...]