Professor Richard Smith, from Imperial College London, said ‘currently, there is not technical feasibility’.
About 50 babies have been born worldwide as a result of womb transplants
About 50 babies have been born worldwide as a result of womb transplants, which give women missing a functioning womb a chance to have a baby. “But that assumes technical feasibility. And in this case, currently, there is not technical feasibility. And the chief physician at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, who helped deliver the first live birth from a transplanted uterus in 2014, said he regularly gets email inquiries from males.
“We change the legal statutes, we do corrective surgery for other things in the body. So this is part of it.”
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