Science has challenged the ability of human bodies once more with a series of womb transplants, according to an article by The Telegraph. British physicians have performed an innovative surgery on patients that allows women born without wombs or disabled from disease to give birth to their own children.
An estimated 5,000 women are born without wombs in Britain each year. The surgery involves a donor organ replacing the original (or nonexistent) organ temporarily to carry the birth of two children. Drugs must be taken in order to stabilize and maintain the organ without rejection.
The surgery is a breakthrough for barren mothers everywhere- they have access to a childbirth that was otherwise denied them. Some were told from their own adolescence that it would be impossible to produce their own families. Science evolves alongside humans to grant these special miracles for families.
But we live in a world so populous, to the point of starvation in developing nations. We artificially inseminate and swap organs to preserve our desire to birth children of our own genetic foundation. Customized babies can be altered for the wealthy now, allowing them to select hair color the way they would select their drapes.
How are we so thoughtless with the creation of life? How has it lost its value, its meaning to us?
Childbirth is a miracle. Not every woman is blessed with a successful birth. Sperm and eggs meeting is not as easy as our sex education videos make it seem. Subtracting the womb and its ability to house a fertilized egg simply makes birth that more valuable to a young family that anxiously awaits an addition.
It’s beautiful for these women to become mothers. To have such an innate, essential part of their bodies revitalized is indescribable. But I worry for the children who hope for a parent in foster care or shelters. I wonder about their future, to be raised without the love of a parent who cares unconditionally.
For every modified, custom-order child out there, a matching child that naturally exists needs love. Children aren’t accidents#they are lives. When a child is born, he or she need support. Children need sincerity and strength. That child needs the love that barren couples so desperately want to give.
I don’t care if my future child has curly hair to match mine or my future husband’s eyes. I want that child to simply be loved.
Science holds the capability of our bodies to produce multiple outcomes in birth and the creation of new lives. I only hope it does not become a tool to achieve a selfish means of life for a model child when so many wonderful children exist.
