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Moving the Womb
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Moving the Womb

Arthur Caplan, Constance Perry, Lauren Plante, Joseph Saloma and Frances Batzer
The Hastings Center report, v 37(3), pp 18-20
01 May 2007
PMID: 17649898

Abstract

Children & youth Hospitals Medical ethics Reproductive system Transplants & implants Women
Recently, a team of physicians at the New York Downtown Hospital announced they had received approval from their institutional review board to attempt the first uterus transplant in the world from a cadaver donor.1 Teams in the United Kingdom and Sweden have also publicly stated their interest in trying uterus transplantation in women. Various cases of older women who have utilized donor embryos or donor sperm and egg to become pregnant, despite great risks to themselves and their potential children, show how strong this desire can be.2 Women who want to experience pregnancy and those for whom gestational surrogacy is out of reach (whether for religious or financial reasons) form a group who are willing, even eager, to subject themselves to experimental uterine surgery.

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