Uterine Transplants and the Unity of the Canadian Church
In 1930, Einar Wegener received a uterine transplant in an effort to gain the reproductive capacity of a biological woman. The transplant did not agree with Wegener’s body; and Wegener died shortly thereafter. So far, no successful transplant has occurred in the body of a biological male. Female to female transplants have worked and even lead to the birth of a child. Despite the lack of success in transplanting a uterus into a male body, the desire to gain the procreative potential exists. Recently, Alicyn Simpson who works in the children’s gender program at UPMC argued that it is feasible....