Usually this isn't their only option for having children -- they could adopt, they could engage a surrogate -- but they want to personally experience gestation and childbirth, and so a very expensive and difficult transplant procedure is done to enable that desire
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The idea is that if the embryo is conceived from your own ovum then it starts off, ethically, "your embryo" and it's an injustice to compel you to relinquish "your" embryo to gestate in someone else's womb against your will
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The current ethical framework for a uterine transplant is "We're giving a mother the right to give birth to her own baby instead of having to give it away to someone else (surrogacy)" It's framed as trying to keep the pregnancy *more* "natural" instead of less natural
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Woah where are you seeing this? My understanding is that the reason for the exclusion of people lacking ovaries and donor embryos from the protocol was to mitigate any question of whether those factors influenced the success of the procedure.
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We put donor embryos in intended parents and in gestational carriers all the time, I can’t imagine any ethical objection to a donor embryos in a donor uterus other than it’s still very much an experimental procedure. But many are advocating for donor embryos to be included now
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