Baby born from dead donor womb transplant in UK first

This is probably a really stupid question…but could a trans woman who had a womb transplant carry and give birth to a baby? With, say IVF using an implanted embryo? Or would a male body reject an implanted womb??

This is probably a really stupid question…but could a trans woman who had a womb transplant carry and give birth to a baby? With, say IVF using an implanted embryo? Or would a male body reject an implanted womb??

Lol, seriously, a trope?? You made the argument that a womb transplant is akin to a lung or kidney transplant. But no one "needs" a womb transplant in order to start a family. Hell no one is going to die if they don't start a family. I feel for women who have fertility issues but a womb transplant is not a need it is a voluntary procedure. Alternatives are not just adoption literally you can go without having children, many people do. You can throw yourself into programs working with kids. You can forge relationships with neices/nephews. There are any, many alternatives if you can't have a child of your own. But no one will die w/o a womb transplant and comparing it to real life saving procedures is just, a false comparison.

The old donor cards used to have a catch all box Any Part of My Body May Be Used.
Maybe that was the dead woman's thoughs.

I had one card that included Cornias as an option and an earlier on that didn't. I assume cornias were a newer thing than organs.
Maybe bombs would be added to that list sooner or later.

No, of course not.

Does this mean that a biological man can sustain womb in his body and raise a baby?

The old donor cards used to have a catch all box Any Part of My Body May Be Used.
Maybe that was the dead woman's thoughs.

I had one card that included Cornias as an option and an earlier on that didn't. I assume cornias were a newer thing than organs.
Maybe bombs would be added to that list sooner or later.

I mean people are weird, abusive, controlling, and sometimes just totally different? The assumption family members can give consent on behalf of the dead is also questionable imo.

Okay, but surely if you opt out it is very straightforward, and your organs/tissue cannot be donated, even if your next of kin might agree?

It not as straightforward as that. If you haven't opted out they don't just carve you up if you happen to have an accident that leaves you a suitable candidate for donation. It basically means if you have opted out it wouldn't be put to you family in event of such an accident where as if you haven't opted out the transplant team will open a dialogue with the family.
In the days of opt in even if you carried a donor card your family could refuse consent. That is still the case with opt out.

Do you think a donor coordinator is like to put someone forward for an experimental outside the usual organs donation if the family say we have no idea what her feelings on donation were? I would assume this is only suggested to families who indicate that their loved one pro any donation and had expressed that to them.

It not as straightforward as that. If you haven't opted out they don't just carve you up if you happen to have an accident that leaves you a suitable candidate for donation. It basically means if you have opted out it wouldn't be put to you family in event of such an accident where as if you haven't opted out the transplant team will open a dialogue with the family.
In the days of opt in even if you carried a donor card your family could refuse consent. That is still the case with opt out.

Do you think a donor coordinator is like to put someone forward for an experimental outside the usual organs donation if the family say we have no idea what her feelings on donation were? I would assume this is only suggested to families who indicate that their loved one pro any donation and had expressed that to them.

Organ donors have been having babies for years with no harm to the child you know.

Still banging the life limiting illness drum eh?

It's standard for IVF embryos to be subjected to genetic screening in the UK when the parents have a genetic illness. No one is deliberately making infertile babies FFS.

Would you be happy for someone to use your womb to bring a healthy baby into the world btw? I can't tell if it's people with genetic illnesses or just womb transplants in general you have a problem with but honestly it seems like both.

Also, if anyone would like to opt out of donation of organs or tissue, here's the link to do it. If you don't opt out, it's assumed you agree to it.
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-your-decision/do-not-donate/

Do you think the loved ones of a woman who has never discussed organ donation with them or has expressed reservations/doubts/limits are likely to say yeah OK use her uterus for an experimental donation or is it more likely that the family of someone who has expressed a desire to be a donor, has talked about being happy to donate any body part after death, may have seen news about the living uterus donation and talked about wanting to do something like that one day that would agree? My family know where I stand and opt in or opt out the family always get the final say so it's very likely that are aware that this is something the donor would be happy to do. If you had any doubt in your mind that a loved one would be unhappy with a donation why would you give consent?

Has anyone mentioned the possible risk to the fetus of the drugs given when the woman receives a donated uterus, to avoid the body rejecting the foreign object? As with all infertility 'workarounds', the would-be parents' needs are prioritised over the needs of the child.

With surrogacy, the baby is ripped away from its birth mother, with whom it has 'communed', physically, for nine months. This new idea is, I continue to believe, grotesque, with not only potential harm to the fetus from the drugs but also of the organ dying or being infected or rejected by the body. There is also potential future psychological harm from the knowledge of gestation by a dead woman's uterus.

Do you think the loved ones of a woman who has never discussed organ donation with them or has expressed reservations/doubts/limits are likely to say yeah OK use her uterus for an experimental donation or is it more likely that the family of someone who has expressed a desire to be a donor, has talked about being happy to donate any body part after death, may have seen news about the living uterus donation and talked about wanting to do something like that one day that would agree? My family know where I stand and opt in or opt out the family always get the final say so it's very likely that are aware that this is something the donor would be happy to do. If you had any doubt in your mind that a loved one would be unhappy with a donation why would you give consent?