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.
...however the scientists were unable to get the rats to engage in sodomy.
(Lyrics by Frank Zappa)
All Joe Biden asks is if there’s a job for his son Hunter
Just what we need — sensitive rats with a flair for fashion !
What happened to “My body, my choice”?
“...men too have mammary glands...”
Well, that answers 1 of the 3 ‘Great Questions’ we have...
1) Why are we here?
2) What does it all mean?
3) Why do men have nipples?
A sane civilization would not tolerate this crap. We are at the brink.
Nah, it would be far more effective for the ChiComs to set up baby farms staffed with procreation slaves.
Actually, the Chinese have a fertility rate problem and they just told their people that families can now have three kids.
WTHH !
http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm
LORETTA(Stan): It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
will nature reject it?
>>Why? Why would anyone do this?
Ask Goebbels, the Japanese warcrimiminal doctors, the Soviet doctors who made 2-headed dogs, the Cleveland doctor who made a 2-headed chimp, and so on.
crack pipe down son.
Economics if anything would make a bullet far cheaper than a weird torture experiment.
Bossy Science Bastards.
men giving birth?? Let them go through labor...
trust the science
Pete Buttigieg hinted at male fatherhood possibilities during the campaign and this explains the word police against the word mother.
So male rats not only received uterus transplants but were conjoined to a female rat. For the entire pregnancy?
Talk about the violinist dilemma.
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