Posted on 06/15/2021 10:57:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
Years ago, the late Joseph Fletcher — an anything-goes utilitarian, sometimes called the “patriarch of bioethics” — yearned for a time when men would give birth. He wrote in his 1988 book, The Ethics of Genetic Control:
Transplant or replacement medicine foresees the day, after the automatic rejection of alien tissue is overcome, when a uterus can be implanted in a human male’s body—his abdomen has spaces—and gestation started by artificial fertilization and egg transfer. Hypogonadism could be used to stimulate milk from the man’s rudimentary breasts—men too have mammary glands. If surgery could not construct a cervical canal the delivery could be effected by a Caesarean section and the male or transsexualized mother could nurse his own baby
What seemed crackers then is promoted now as a matter of human rights as part of the transgender movement and other advocacy agendas for creating new family structures. Indeed, an article a bit ago in the Journal of Medical Ethics opined:
From a justice perspective, there is a moral imperative to ensure equitable access to UTx [uterine transplant]. In this case, arguments against providing UTx to genetically XY [transgender] women for reasons unrelated to safety and efficacy should be assessed carefully to address potential discrimination against genetically XY women as a social group.
Successful Caesarean Birth Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Rats were subjected to an experiment in which a male was surgically attached to a female so there was shared blood, and then a uterus was transplanted into the male. IVF embryos were implanted in the transplanted uterus, and some of the pups were gestated to a successful Caesarean birth. From “A Rat Model for Male Pregnancy”:
For the first time, a mammalian animal model of male pregnancy was constructed by us. Our research reveals the possibility of normal embryonic development in male mammalian animals, and it may have a profound impact on the research of reproductive biology.
Was this really a legitimate area of scientific inquiry? Was the need to determine whether a male mammal could give birth of such scientific importance to justify treating animals in this way? If not — and with all the problems people have in the world, males giving birth would seem to be a very low-priority item — I can only say that the whole enterprise was utterly grotesque. But these are the times in which we live.
Yes, of course it happened in China, the country where anything goes in biotechnology.
Cross-posted at The Corner.
Why?
Why would anyone do this?
Seems 100% political so that some guy in a dress claiming to be “Susan” can say “I can give birth you know. Science has proven it.”
Romans 1 becoming more relevant each and every day...
Nice work, Frankenstein.
Let’s double the rat population.
The aliens are already doing this.
They stick you to the wall with bubble gum and some alien comes along and gives you the old what for right in the mouth and then a baby alien comes crashing out.
No gender reveal or nothing.
Biological Appropriation
LOL! I swear that read “Scientists Make Mall Rat Give Birth” the first time I read it!
Think that its is crazy? Go ask the millions of Uighurs in their concentration camps.
Sounds like a waste of time, there are plenty of females around.
I’m sure God’s about to give up on us now.
Trying to play God again. It never works out very well. Just leave well enough alone. . . .
“Everybody, out of the pool!”
Yeah, and the world just got a little crazier.
No, the male rat didn’t give birth. A birthing canal was grafted on him, and a pregnancy initiated in it.
An analogy will make this easier for democrats to understand:
If you graft on to me a kangaroo’s pouch, and put a baby ‘roo in it, am I carrying a ‘roo in my pouch? No more than if I had put the baby in a shopping bag.
And injecting hormones doesn’t change a person’s sex.
The insane reality is that there’s big money to be made here. A growing field, as it were. The USA is currently in another one of its insane crazy hysterical fads that consists of one day a boy wakes up and declares he’s a girl, and his family takes him seriously, rushes him to the doctor, snips off that pesky schmeckel, and he buys some lipstick.
No he didn’t. I Mail did not give birth, also, who’s paying for this?
“Why would anyone do this?”
Narcissistic psychopaths?
That’s NEXT WEEK!........................
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