Ethical questions – not least, about risks to the donors – have been ignored in the excited coverage of this British medical breakthrough
Good news stories can feel few and far between these days. The pace of progress means they are often medical; there’s always new life-saving and life-changing treatments on the horizon.
Perhaps that explains the breathy excitement with which the UK’s first womb transplant was reported last week – transferred from an older sister who has had children to a younger sister with a rare condition that means she could not otherwise carry a pregnancy. Articles were packed with quotes from doctors heralding this as a profound development, the “dawn of a new age”, according to the chair of the British Fertility Society.
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