Posted on 11/25/2015 12:09:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
News that doctors in Cleveland, Ohio have begun screening applicants for a clinical trial of uterine transplantation has prompted some to wonder if science will ever find a way to transplant a uterus into a man, and according to a Yahoo article, we may be just five years away from doing just that.
The article published Nov. 18, quoted Dr. Karine Chung, director of the fertility preservation program at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, as saying, "My guess is five, 10 years away, maybe sooner."
Theoretically, the article said, a man could receive a uterine transplant, "carry a baby to term, and give birth."
Modern medicine has already found a way to suppress male and introduce female hormones in transgender women, causing the breasts to lactate and obtaining "surgically constructed vaginas that include a 'neoclitoris,' which allows sensations."
Biological women have "vasculature needed to feed the uterus with blood, pelvic ligaments designed to support a uterus, a vagina and cervix, and natural hormones that prepare the uterus for implantation and support the pregnancy."
However, according to Chung, "Male and female anatomy is not that different." At some point, someone "will figure out how to make that work," she said.
Biological women have a leg up on biological males when it comes to accepting and nurturing a transplanted uterus. Women already have: vasculature needed to feed the uterus with blood, pelvic ligaments designed to support a uterus, a vagina and cervix, and natural hormones that prepare the uterus for implantation and support the pregnancy.
Men have none of those support systems — naturally — but none are impossible to create. “Male and female anatomy is not that different,” said Chung. “Probably at some point, somebody will figure out how to make that work.”
"It's possible to attach a branch of a large vessel, like the internal iliac, to the uterus" in males to take the place of the uterine veins and arteries natural women have to nurture the womb," the article said.
"It's doable, it just hasn't been done," Chung was quoted as saying.
"Hormone therapy can shut off testosterone and introduce progesterone and estrogen needed to prepare the uterus for pregnancy," the article said. Also, while it's better for "a vagina to support the uterus, it's possible to attach a transplanted uterus to other ligaments in the pelvis."
According to the article, "Uterus transplants are still in the research stage for women suffering from uterine factor infertility (UFI). A Swedish team already has successfully transplanted uteri harvested from live donors and achieved five pregnancies and four live births. In the coming months, the Cleveland Clinic team plans to transplant uteri from deceased donors into UFI female patients."
Patients who receive a uterine transplant will have to take anti rejection drugs throughout their pregnancies, which puts them at risk for infection, the article noted.
Furthermore, beside the ethical questions involving such a transplant procedure in men, there are "long-term health outcomes for transplant recipients and subsequent children" to consider, the article pointed out.
Who is funding this?
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You are, of course.
God help us! We're so screwed. the west is self destructing. I'm 57 now...I just hope I'm in the ground before the country goes completely toes up!
Ewwwwwwww!
I watched about 3 seconds of it, then turned away.
“...and for my next trick I will put a 2015 Ford F150 water pump into a 2015 Mini Cooper...”
Watch me pull a 7 pound 8 ounce baby out of my arse.
What would be the point of this? It’s pretty useless with out a vajayjay to go with it.
Yep...I thought as much.
There’s this insane need to prop up delusions by any means necessary. Anything to discount the natural order of Creation and the created *order* of the reproductive cycle.
When man rejects the Creator, this is the result. Pharoah tried to snuff out life at birth. Modern man is now in the business of dismantling wombs in order to put them in places they don’t belong.
Hmmm, watch the “need” for hysterectomies to increase. Donor authorization will be in the fine print. And don’t forget the slick pamphlets: “Your generous donation will help an infertile couple have a baby..”
So apparently this Doctor thinks there’s a BIG market out there for such implants.
I wonder what this guy is projecting.
Jesus is gonna be coming back real soon. He says we will know the season. I dont know the exact date and time, but I see what’s going on around me. Idiocy and evil are proclaimed wise and good. What is actually wise and good are declared evil and stupid.
$ to doughnuts they’ll hijack the English language again and say, “Now, a man can have a baby!”.
And we’ll have to point out the obvious: No, they may CARRY to term, but unless he’s miraculously producing eggs/etc.
Brave New World...
That’s only for women. Far most hardcore feminist having men get pregnant is their fondest, most cherished wet dream.
As I told Mrs. Redangus almost twenty years ago, “Sadly we will probably live to see a time when the normal becomes abnormal and the abnormal will become normal.” We have arrived.
Hahaha!!!!
Got my name in already!
It’s called research money. I couldn’t read the entire article because it made me nauseous, but you can bet there is plenty of our money flowing to fund this crap. They will soon have a branch of planned parenthood and will call it planned womanhood.
Why?
Matthew 24:40 King James Version (KJV)
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left
And for diabetes next?
Raise your hand if you wanted or needed to know this. :-)
LOL! That is such an understatement, it's pathological.
Like saying a human has a "leg up" over a dog in driving a car.
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