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First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A healthy baby girl has been born using a womb transplanted from a dead person. The 10-hour transplant operation -- and later fertility treatment -- took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2016. The mother, 32, was born without a womb. There have been 39 womb transplants using a live donor, including mothers donating their womb to their daughter, resulting in 11 babies. But the 10 previous transplants from a dead donor have failed or resulted in miscarriage. In this case, reported in The Lancet, the womb donor was a mother of three in her mid-40s who died from bleeding on the brain. The recipient reportedly had Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, which affects about one in every 4,500 women and results in the vagina and uterus (womb) failing to form properly.
The baby girl was delivered by Caesarean section on December 15, 2017, weighing 6 pounds (2.5kg).
The baby girl was delivered by Caesarean section on December 15, 2017, weighing 6 pounds (2.5kg).
"Excuse me, I think I must have gotten on the wrong uterus."
Lol
Really?
What a kick in the pants - your one chance to have a medical condition named after you, and you have to share the credit with three other assholes.
Perhaps and only maybe this is one of those things that we do without a great amount of consideration if we should?!?!
I know the earth is critically short of humans, but marketing dead wombs to people with broken wombs seems a bit macabre... how does the doc begin that conversation?
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Your squeamishness is not morality.
Salvaging organs from a donor to benefit those who need them is an example of supreme excellence in both morality and accomplishment. The donor is being above-and-beyond generous. The doctor is performing an amazing feat of medical science. A woman born with a disease that normally denies her one of the most basic joys of life is given a chance to have something she dearly wants. A child is born that otherwise would not be.
Everything here is awesome, and yet you frown at it.
The problem here, is you.
Damn. I'd rather adopt or find a surrogate mother. This is crazy.
If the defect is heritable, yes some harm has been done.
WTF are you doing?
Hmmm.. so it's a womb that was taken from a deadperson, than later the woman who got the womb got pregnant and delivered a baby.. That makes it a tad bit different than the initial headline might suggest, as I thought it was a pregnant lady that died and they had transplanted the womb including the baby into the other woman and then delivered the baby.. that would make the story quite different.
Individuals should be allowed to own and control their own bodies, and make their own informed decisions. It is none of your business.
Only as long as I agree with your decision.
#MAGA.
One thing we humans do NOT need is "help with reproduction". Look around yourselves! ADOPTION is a thing! Population pressure is terrible! Use some good sense for heaven's sake!
I applaud the scientists/medical people involved, but can't help to think, in this over-populated world, with lots of unwanted babies and orphans, that all the medical efforts could have been better spent on relieving widespread human suffering. They say half of us will get cancer, for example.
And I thought I read somewhere that such a procedure costs ~ $250,000.
So you think the pain of not being able to conceive doesn't count as human suffering? A woman who desperately wants to have a child, but is medically unable? Not very compassionate of you, there.
As far as curing cancer goes - are you working towards that? What contributions have you made to eliminating cancer? The truth of the matter is that different doctors have different specialties, and they work within those disciplines.
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The womb isn't a body part. They transplanted her uterus. Let's use the real words not pretty little euphemisms.
So you think the pain of not being able to conceive doesn't count as human suffering? A woman who desperately wants to have a child, but is medically unable? Not very compassionate of you, there.
As far as curing cancer goes - are you working towards that? What contributions have you made to eliminating cancer? The truth of the matter is that different doctors have different specialties, and they work within those disciplines.
Yuup. Just like male patttern baldness. REALLY, with so many abortions and adoptions, do we really need barren women destroying those awesome NOT stretched vaginas???
So you think the pain of not being able to conceive doesn't count as human suffering? A woman who desperately wants to have a child, but is medically unable? Not very compassionate of you, there.
I said "widespread". No, I don't equate few women's "lack of choice" to millions of people suffering/dying globally every year.
As far as curing cancer goes - are you working towards that? What contributions have you made to eliminating cancer? The truth of the matter is that different doctors have different specialties, and they work within those disciplines.
I can/have only donate money at this point. I see your point, but, again, I think those overlapping medical specialties could have been better applied. "Womb transplant expertise" requires some of our smartest people, for many years, but helps so few.