Uterus transplants

Every time this comes up, I feel that it's more likely a baby could be gestated in an artificial uterus outside of any body than in one transplanted into a man. It takes more than a uterus to maintain a pregnancy in the first place, but the complications around any kind of transplant and the medication involved in simply ensuring the body doesn't reject it surely mean it couldn't work, never mind the enormous ethical barriers.

Whenever these experiments come up, I say it won’t happen until an entire female reproductive system and female endocrine system can be implanted.

It may be able to happen….

It may require technology that will atomise the male body and reconstruct it be a female body.

Like in Star Trek.

Then there is the ethical issue of experimenting on an embryo.

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01423-y

Currently, the old 14 day limit of life has been moved to 28 days. Then the 28 day embryo is destroyed. This was moved for stem cell research and that research has life saving potential.

What on earth would have to be the potential for experimentation of this type to be ethical?

How many human embryos and then foetuses would be compromised for this experiment to be ‘successful’?

Are people happy in the meantime to understand that this would be similar to growing a lamb in a bag? And what cognitive issues will there be with a human grown in a bag without the inter connectivity of all the other things a female body gives of itself to the foetus, and that is all now artificial or synthetic?

Do people supporting this experiment understand how many human foetuses will die to carry just one to term?

Do people supporting this experiment understand that when the specialist who successfully induced a male to lactate to breastfeed whatever the cocktail was that they produced, that specialist who was a transitioned male chose not to experiment on themselves to feed their own newborn infant because of the drug cocktail they used was unknown and they worried about the negative effects on their own child. Of course, they was happy some other child got that cocktail as the only milk to sustain them ….. just knew it could leave their own child with long term health issues - ethics huh?

It's like biology is a myth

This is cruel. To allow a male to believe this is possible.

are they planning on implanting (there is no ‘transplant’ here this is am implant) the entire endocrine system of a female too?

So fat the only way a male rat has been ‘successfully’ pregnant was through multiple full blood swaps from females, and then had a female pregnant rat attached to the male with the pregnant uterus so the female rat sustained two pregnant rats, one being herself, alive for the pregnancy.

Many female rats died in this experiment.

I am sure someone will come
along with more information on this.

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01885-0

oh. And the rats were paralyzed to be able to do this.

Do the doctors honestly think a uterus is all that is needed. Like a plug in and play bag like an accessory?

It's just fucking delusional. What's it's supposed to achieve?

In all honesty I don’t think the it’s possible.

If the owner of the uterus wants to “donate” it, it’s one thing but if there’s any way it can be bought or they can use assumed consent it’s far worse.

Oh dear. Does anyone recall Lili Elbe's life and death (immortalised in The Danish Girl starring Eddie Redmayne)?

It's a fantasy. These doctors are making money off the fantasies of those gullible enough to believe them. That whole article is written as if the author had not a single clue about female biology or the process of conception and pregnancy.

This has the awful whiff of experiments by Josef Mengele about it.