Womb transplants may be the dawn of a new age, but they fill me with foreboding | Sonia Sodha
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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