Comment by idorosen
5 years ago
Millions of same-sex couples may benefit from this research in the future if it helps make it possible for them to conceive (directly biologically related) children.
EDIT: Oh gosh, it's right there in TFA, that's what I get for skimming instead of reading deeply. All I saw were comments on the ethical implications of the biology work when I commented.
That's explicitly mentioned at least two times in the article as a primary motive of the founder.
It's in the mission statement at the top of the link:
> and potentially allow male-male couples to have biological children.
Of course they'd still need a surrogate to gestate the baby. Which ain't cheap.
https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/lessons-ukraine-shifting-int...
And it’s getting more expensive, because the number of women who want to be surrogates and who are also not suffering from abject poverty is low.
Until we perfect artificial wombs.
I wonder if it would make sense to use a surrogate to gestate the very early stages, and then transfer the fetus to an artificial womb for the later stages. There would probably be many more women willing to do this since it's the later stages of pregnancy and birth that creates the most wear and tear on the body, not to mention emotional trauma with immediately losing the baby you carried.
Hell, even women having their own babies might choose this route if it becomes feasible, like many preemptively choose c-sections now.
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