today's rant:
I read in the Telegraph that a British woman is about to head to a Swedish hospital to have a womb transplant. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8571487/Worlds-first-womb-transplant-p...
I feel a bit troubled by it, and I'm not sure why. I guess I think this is a really crappy waste of medical resources. Can't have children? Adopt!
I know a lot of people are getting creeped out by the fact that the donor is the woman's mother -- as the article states in a rather sensationalized way, she will carry a child in the same womb that she was carried in. That's a bit strange but not what is most disturbing to me.
To me this seems like yet another commodification of reproduction. I'm all for transplants of vital organs -- you know, the ones you can't live without. This just does not seem to compare.
Am I just being anti-breeder because Jenna and I are childless by our own choice? Is this creepy to anyone else because of the gender politics of reproduction?
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