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First Birth From Human Womb Transplant
BarbaraHudson (3785311) writes The headline sounds like something from the tabloids — "Woman becomes first to give birth from transplanted womb — using one donated from her own mother.'" But it's from The National Post, quoting The Lancet: "The breakthrough was reported by The Lancet medical journal on its website last night. It is thought the birth occurred within the last month after doctors transplanted wombs into several women who had a rare genetic condition that meant they were born without their own womb. In January, one of the patients underwent in-vitro fertilization treatment that resulted in an embryo being transferred to her new womb. The donated womb came from the woman's own mother, so the baby is also the first born to a woman using the same womb from which she emerged herself. In wake of the Lancet article, the Swedish team refused to confirm a baby had been born, saying: "As soon as there is a scientific peer-reviewed paper, we will comment on this. I will provide you with information as soon as we have some." Eight of Dr. Brannstrom's patients received their wombs from close relatives, reducing the risk of their bodies rejecting them." There's nothing at The Lancet online yet."
There is, though, an article at the BBC.
...doesn't mean that you _should_.
In this case, what happens when the child has the same genetic defect? Pass the womb on 3rd hand?
I will forever be thankful for our fertility doctor. We sat in front of him and he told my wife she could never bare children. She asked "what can you do?" He smiled and said "Given enough hope and money, there's practically no end to what I could do. But there are desperate children all over that need parents. It may be that life is giving you a hint." That line will remain with me for the rest of my life because it rang so true and cut through the bullshit of modern life.
I'd not thought of adopting... and I immediately thought "That will be a hell of a lot less work and my wife wont get fat!!"
I was wrong on both accounts in the end, but, I'm currently the proud father of the best son a father could ever have. Standing on the outside and looking at it you think you could never love an adopted kid the same as you would your own flesh. But I'm here to tell you that you can and will. He is my son. He knows he's adopted and he thinks it's cool. He brags to his friends that "His parents went all the way to Africa for him!"
Anyway, I find it sad that we go to such extreme, untested and dangerous lengths to solve a problem that already has a very simple solution. Adopt, you wont regret it.
To many this may be considered flamebait, but it is my honest opinion and deserves discussion.
I think that if you have serious genetic problems then you shouldn't be having children if those genetic defects are going to be passed on. Yes nobody is perfect I realise that. It just seems to me that the majority of humans are not able to think rationally when it comes to genetics/eugenics. Why am I saying this? - Because the % of the population with disabilities that require care is growing exponentially, the outcome if the issue isn't addressed is a population of invalids that can't look after themselves, is that fair on future generations? Think of the children!
Men produce approx' 525,000,000,000 during their lifetime, should they all have a right to live?
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I Doubt any kind of genital surgery was common in the 19th century
Excuse me, but the poster was talking about medical and scientific attitudes, not medical and scientific acts.
Also, you're wrong. Surgery on the intersexed goes back at least to the mid-1700's. See page 49 this report. That's the 18th century.
And if you read the rest of the paper, the problem is that the attitude of many in the medical community has not changed - doctors want to "fix" children at a very young age, without any real test to know what the right solution is in any individual case, or whether the patient is content to just leave well enough alone. At least with transsexuals you can get feedback from the patient, even at a young age, as to what is "right" for them.
If you feel that's not the case I would recomend offering solutions or suggestions instead of just whining about the way things are.
Posting on sites like slashdot IS doing something - it's providing real-life examples of "hey, there's a problem here" and getting it out into the open. We can't all say "well, there's a problem, so I'm going to devote the next 2 decades to becoming a doctor and THEN fighting it." Just not practical, and in the meantime another 20 years of IS children "get it in the groin", so to speak. I know, that's rather blunt language, but how would you like someone messing around with your "bits" without your permission, or even knowledge?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
someone did, it was my parents call (circumcision) as is the case with any intersex babies so the "Medical community attitude" isn't really the prevailing factor . Posting all this on a slashdot article about an artifical womb is the wrong way to go about things. Also according to your document the "attitude within the medical scientific community" has changed quite a bit since the 19th century