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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 05 2017, @07:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the new-baby-boomers dept.

A woman in the U.S. has given birth in the last month after having successfully received a uterus transplant in September 2016. This follows an unsuccessful uterus transplant performed at the Cleveland Clinic in February 2016:

For the first time in the United States, a woman who had a uterus transplant has given birth.

The mother, who was born without a uterus, received the transplant from a living donor last year at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, and had a baby boy there last month, the hospital said on Friday.

At the family's request, their name, hometown and the date of the birth are being withheld to protect their privacy, according to Julie Smith, a spokeswoman for the hospital, which is part of Baylor Scott & White Health.

Since 2014, eight other babies have been born to women who had uterus transplants, all in Sweden, at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg.

[...] At Baylor, eight women have had transplants, including the new mother, in a clinical trial designed to include 10 patients. One recipient is pregnant, and two others — one of whom received her transplant from a deceased donor — are trying to conceive. Four other transplants failed after the surgery, and the organs had to be removed, said Dr. Giuliano Testa, principal investigator of the research project and surgical chief of abdominal transplantation.

"We had a very rough start, and then hit the right path," Dr. Testa said in a telephone interview. "Who paid for it in a certain way were the first three women. I feel very thankful for their contribution, more so than I can express."

Up to 50,000 women may be candidates for uterus transplants.

Also at Newsweek, Time, and Dallas News.

Related: President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by unauthorized on Wednesday December 06 2017, @01:36AM (1 child)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Wednesday December 06 2017, @01:36AM (#605942)

    need

    Yes, need. This is the keyword here, people have a really powerful evolutionary drive to procreate. People do not need to feel ashamed that they choose to fulfill their own needs, rather than to support the children of genetic dead ends who did not have the strength of character to raise their own offspring and abdicated their parenthood responsibilities.

    It is an extremely low blow to guilt trip someone into taking personal responsibility for the well-being of children whose creation they had no choice in. People should not feel ashamed for not choosing to prioritize the needs of others over their own, even if these "others" are orphan children.

    I'm sorry for the plight of everyone who ended up without parents, and this is why I'm in favor of having some of some of my taxes be spent in their upbringing. Any further involvement on anyone's part is a personal choice that people should make for themselves in the court of their own consciousness, without the input of moral authoritarians demanding that they do "the right thing" (tm). Emotional blackmail is morally bankrupt, you shouldn't manipulate other people into making the choices you want them to make.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 06 2017, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 06 2017, @06:45PM (#606272)

    Seconded because ACs can't mod up :(