Posted on 08/02/2016 7:52:11 AM PDT by Morgana
British taxpayers could soon begin paying for in vitro fertilization for transgender people who were born female and had a male sex change, according to The Daily Mail.
A highly controversial new issue, the possibility of transgender male pregnancy could become reality very soon in England. Dr. James Barrett, a West London doctor who performs sex changes, said three of his female-to-male transition patients had their eggs frozen and want to become pregnant.
Barrett said dozens of his transgender patients have frozen their eggs and sperm so that they could become parents in the future. He said cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy often freeze their eggs and sperm, too.
As a matter of principle, anybody who loses their fertility as a result of standard [British National Health System] treatment should be able to preserve their fertility, he said.
There are many concerns surrounding the new procedure, including that it could take away tax dollars from more critically-needed medical procedures. According to the report:
critics said cash-strapped health authorities should not be spending up to £34,000 [about $45,000] per patient to help them change sex and have children when they are rationing basic services such as cataract operations, hip replacements and even hearing aids.
Tory [Member of Parliament] Peter Bone said: I am not sure why the taxpayer should be funding this. I just sometimes ask if the NHS is getting its priorities right.
[Bone continued] The NHS does not have endless pots of cash and, with accident and emergency departments and hospitals bursting to the seams, we should stop pretending that it does. Its something that people could surely fund privately if they want to.
In 2008, Thomas Beatie, of Honolulu, became the first transgender man (born female) to become pregnant and give birth to children, according to the report. Doctors left Beaties female reproductive organs in place during the sex change to allow for pregnancy; since then, Beatie has given birth to three children, the report states.
Most transgender people use a surrogate to become pregnant, according to the report.
The news is ethically troubling for multiple reasons. The possible risks to the unborn child are unknown at this time. How the hormone therapy and other aspects of a sex change could affect a transgender persons unborn child during the pregnancy has not been explored.
In vitro fertilization also troubles many pro-lifers because human embryos are created and often are left over from the process. Embryos are very young human lives, and the embryos left over from IVF often are stored indefinitely, destroyed or used in experiments, rather than given a chance to live and develop.
Last month, LifeNews reported scientists also are considering whether pregnancy is a possibility for males who transition to female. As uterus transplants become a more realistic possibility, some doctors say they are receiving inquiries from male patients who identify as women and have had sex changes and want to become pregnant, according to the Daily Caller.
Dear God, please make it stop!
What was that movie called? “The Madness of King George?”
This is an entirely predictable, logical development of the sexual revolution. Every personal desire must be satisfied, every whim indulged ... no consequences, no cost, no judgment.
Nothing is too expensive for the freaks.
Vote for SMOD 2016. It’s the only way to stop it.
no, we are not crazy. this is insane.
can it get any more screwed up than this.
Please note that this is a system that rations some care of relatively modest cost. Those people suffer and die so that these very fanciful and astronomically expensive procedures can prove the compassion of the government.
SMOD?
I'm not going to give anything away, but this one is closer to he mark.
“Sweet Meteor of Death”
His campaign slogan is “Just End It Already”
We are doing our best to outdo the fall of the Roman Empire....
Haha!!!
That’s funny......I made the mistake of watching this perverted abortion of a sci-fi film. My daughter once asked me “Have you seen this?” She said it really looked good.
I told her “you aren’t going to like it, one bit.” “I tell you, take my advice.” She didn’t and she told me she should have.
I am tempted to give away the whole plot of this, but ONLY in Sci-fi, could anything remotely like this could happen and that would take some pretty twisted sh!t to happen.
28 Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless. 32 Although they know Gods just requirementthat those who practice such things deserve to diethey not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.
Any doubt the Godlessness of the post Christian era is on display?
This is the complete rejection of human nature, as it IS.
My prayer every day.
Sometimes I think ISIS is not totally wrong about the West. We are becoming a morally deprived, reality challenged cesspool.
Peter Bone...
“Hehe...hey, Beavis...”
(At least he’s a Tory, but I have to laugh at that name in relation to the topic at hand.)
I thought Dr. Mengle moved to Argentina?
In this day and age where things that where once found only in outlandish works of far-fetched dystopian science fiction are becoming reality, it probably can.
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