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Science Says Men Will Be Able To Carry Their Own Babies In 5-10 Years,
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Sounds like I great idea! Why shouldn't men have just as much right to choose to do such?
by Clutch
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A surgical breakthrough is poised to change the lives of women plagued by fertility issues. But before the impact of this new procedure has been fully recognized in its intended co-hort, already physicians are thinking about broader possibilities: the ability for men to carry children as well.
It may sound far-fetched, but according to Dr. Karine Chung, director of the fertility preservation program at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, it’s right around the corner. “My guess is five, 10 years away, maybe sooner,” she told Yahoo News. But how is that possible? Uterus transplants.
Earlier this month the Cleveland Clinic announced the start of a clinical trial transplanting uteri from deceased women into healthy women in their 20s and 30s with uterine factor infertility, a condition indicating the women have ovaries but were either born without a uterus or have complications with it. It’s a procedure that’s been done successfully in a handful of women in Sweden and is still in the research phase in the U.S., but it’s clear it won’t be long before science attempts to expand the scope of this particular practice. As Yahoo pointed out:
Sounds like I great idea! Why shouldn't men have just as much right to choose to do such?