Womb Transplants

[bednobs]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34397794
Great idea, or icky, frankenstien medecine?

[Retrochic]

Totally unnecessary. If you are born without a womb hard luck -you can't have kids -but could adopt one of the thousands of children looking for a loving family.

[andy-hughes]

Fantastic idea!

I am sure that any woman given a chance to conceive and deliver a baby after being told this is not possible will be delighted to receive a transplanted womb and be able to be a mum.

[andy-hughes]

Retrochic - //Totally unnecessary. If you are born without a womb hard luck -you can't have kids -but could adopt one of the thousands of children looking for a loving family. //

I think that is a little harsh - as I believe you know, the miracle of childbirth is something that should be offered to any woman who wants it, if it is made possible, in my view.

[Sqad]

I agree with her ^^^^ Retrochic.

Who will pay for these wombless women to have the feeling of a live being in their stomach, to feel the movement, to breast feed in public and to say........."I am a mother"

[jim360]

It has interesting implications for the future. At what point would it be possible for even transwomen to request a womb transplant, for example?

[Sqad]

a-h......

\\\\\ deliver a baby after being told this is not possible will be delighted to receive a transplanted womb and be able to be a mum.\\\

Eh? It will be delivered by C-section.

[woofgang]

fine idea but NOT on the NHS

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //\\\\\ deliver a baby after being told this is not possible will be delighted to receive a transplanted womb and be able to be a mum.\\\

Eh? It will be delivered by C-section. //

I don't think that will be a deal-breaker for an otherwise childless woman - do you?

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //Who will pay for these wombless women to have the feeling of a live being in their stomach, to feel the movement, to breast feed in public and to say........."I am a mother" //

Last time I checked, breast-feeding in public was an option, not a condition of parenthood.

And I am happy for my financial contribution to the NHS to go in this direction. If I support stomach reductions for obese people, I am certainly happy to support this.

[Retrochic]

If I had not got a womb I would of course be sad but just have to come to terms with it. Its early days and as long as the research and actual operations are privately funded then I have no problem with people having the Op if they have enough cash to splash. If they have no womb then I presume they have no working ovaries or Fallopian tubes which would mean they would be incapable of natural conception anyway -. So - splash out half a million on a 'bag' to put in your body in which an embryo will be transplanted and later cut out - ? Why bother?

[Zacs-Master]

If they have no womb, ovaries, Fallopian tubes, wouldn't the hormones suppress the emotion to want a child? Sqad?

[Zacs-Master]

lack of hormones?


(I flunked O level Biology - can you tell?)

[andy-hughes]

Retrochic - // ... I have no problem with people having the Op if they have enough cash to splash. //

Does that mean that only ladies of a certain income bracket are allowed to be mothers under this new system? No cash, no baby?

That does sound rather harsh.

[bednobs]

Andy, it's exactly what happens now for people who don't meet the NHS IVF criteria - if you can't afford to pay privately, tough!

[Zacs-Master]

Andy, if a new cancer beating drug was withdrawn for a relative of yours at the expense of a woman having a womb transplant, would that seem harsh to you?

[bednobs]

the women referred to in the article as meeting the criteria for the trial do have ovaries, but no womb

[Retrochic]

andy its not harsh its Life . Why should I pay into the NHS so a woman can have a hugely expensive transplant that may not work? The NHS is already on its knees trying to fund real transplants like heart,kidney and lung -transplants that save lives, not pander to to the 'needs' of a broody female.

[Retrochic]

bednobs -the ovaries are attached to the Uterus -so if the patient has not got a uterus where are the Ovaries? in limbo?

[bednobs]

no they aren't

[Baldric]

/// So - splash out half a million on a 'bag' to put in your body in which an embryo will be transplanted and later cut out///

That would do 10 of them!

///According to his team at Womb Transplant UK, each procedure costs up to £50,000 to perform///,