First birth from womb transplant

[TaraJo]

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-med...transplant

Good news for women who, for one reason or another don't have a womb. I mean, I'll probably be too old for it once it becomes common practice, but it's nice to know future generations have something to shoot for.

[DramaQueen]

Yeah science

[TaraJo]

Yeah science

Yeah, I'm wondering how long it's gonna be before some religious leader decides this is sacreligious.

[Aoi Magi]

I am wondering how long before these becomes the least of concerns of religious leaders, and becomes the major headache of governments dealing with over-population.

[DramaQueen]

When we ban birth control maybe?

[Chad32]

I don't think I've heard of women being born without a womb. I have heard of some weird things happening, though, so it's likely not the weirdest thing ever.

[TaraJo]

I am wondering how long before these becomes the least of concerns of religious leaders, and becomes the major headache of governments dealing with over-population.

Fortunately, the places that have the technological resources to pull off a womb transplant aren't the places where the population is booming. While the world is over-populated, the problem areas tend to be the third world nations where the only resource is argriculture and the more children you have, the more people you have to tend the land.

[Anomalocaris]

I don't think I've heard of women being born without a womb. I have heard of some weird things happening, though, so it's likely not the weirdest thing ever.

It is called Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome. It is relatively common amongst severe congenital defects. There are probably fifty to a hundred thousand American women who suffer from it.

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I am wondering how long before these becomes the least of concerns of religious leaders, and becomes the major headache of governments dealing with over-population.

Fortunately, the places that have the technological resources to pull off a womb transplant aren't the places where the population is booming. While the world is over-populated, the problem areas tend to be the third world nations where the only resource is argriculture and the more children you have, the more people you have to tend the land.

Although Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome is common for a severe genetic defect, it is not common enough so that curing it would significantly effect overall birth rate.

In any case, price of major organ transplant show no sign of coming within reach of most of the third world. Also, since woman are not usually born with spare uterus like they are with a spare kidney, it seems likely the supply of transplantable uterus would always be tight.

[TaraJo]

There are other issues that may result in a woman not having a womb. My situation is the first that pops to mind. There are also women who have to get a hysterectomy for one medical reason or another.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I knew - personally - a woman who, at 15, lost her uterus as the result of injuries suffered in a car crash. Lots of ways, then, that a woman could be without a uterus.

Boru