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Some scientists are saying that it might be possible in a decade or so to transplant a functioning womb into a man.<\/p>\n

In the UK there is an effort to have the National Health Service sponsor the necessary research and to have taxpayers fund the operations.<\/p>\n

This would allow \u201ctransgender women who were born male\u201d to have children.<\/p>\n

The advocates see another market with gay men and even heterosexual men\u00a0so that they too can experience the \u201cjoys\u201d of being pregnant.<\/p>\n

The joys of being pregnant! \u00a0More likely in that decade is the perfection of the artificial womb so that women can avoid those particular joys. \u00a0Perhaps in that day, men may have children, while women won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Or will\u00a0nature will reassert itself? \u00a0<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Doctors back transgender women having babies on the NHS | Daily Mail Online<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Transgender\u00a0women who were born male should be given womb transplants so that they can have children, leading\u00a0NHS\u00a0<\/a>doctors have told The Mail on Sunday.<\/p>\n

And fertility experts say taxpayers should fund such transplants for those who identify as women, on the basis of \u2018equality enshrined in law\u2019.<\/p>\n

Leading the debate on the controversial procedure is medical ethics lawyer Dr Amel Alghrani, who is pressing for a talks on whether womb transplants for trans-women should be publicly funded.<\/p>\n

Dr Alghrani, of Liverpool University, also predicts that a successful programme would lead to others demanding wombs \u2013 including gay and straight men who wanted to experience \u2018the joys\u2019 of carrying a child.<\/p>\n

But critics say the NHS should not waste precious resources merely to allow trans-women to pursue an \u2018authentic female experience\u2019.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s campaigner Laura Perrins said: \u2018Most taxpayers will not think this is a good use of resources. It raises profound ethical and moral issues that will have an impact on women\u2019s rights. It will impinge on the meaning of motherhood and womanhood.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, gynaecologists are increasingly convinced that implanting a donor womb into a person born with male organs is possible, with one top doctor saying it is just a decade away. They believe the recent success of \u2018uterine transplantation\u2019 in women born without wombs has drawn it a step closer.<\/p>\n

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