Like in the movie Junior, they inserted a fertilized egg into the man's abdomen and then the guy takes a drug to keep the pregnancy going? Do you think science will ever make it possible for this to happen in real life?
If so, how many of you men would actually do this?
2007-08-05 08:10:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I doubt it will ever become viable. The physical stresses on the male body during pregnancy would be damaging and probably fatal. The sheer cost of doing it would probably render it far too expensive too consider. Add to that the psychological damage to any child born in such a way.
2007-08-05 08:14:26 · answer #1 · answered by Efnissien 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying movies aren't real?
There would have to be some really good reason for anyone to develop the process to the extent a pregnancy could be carried to term, for a fictional reason see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague (a tailored plague is killing only women)
I could imagine some progress in that direction might be made as a side effect of anti-rejection drugs for transplants or for therapies developed for women that just happened to have some effect on men, but again, I doubt it would be developed very far. There are mechanical problems in addition to the hormonal ones, a male would probably have to spend the vast majority of the pregnancy in bed, not to mention that a cesarean delivery would be mandatory (though that would probably be the least of the problems). Speaking of mechanical, a mechanical "womb" is probably more likely than pregnant men.
One thought that occurs to me, that this might be done where it was not intended to carry the "pregnancy" to term, for example to grow stem cells for some treatment for the man the egg is being implanted in, however this doesn't seem too likely. I suspect very few men would want to become "pregnant" unless it was for the last reason.
2007-08-05 15:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by tinkertailorcandlestickmaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is already possible and has been done with other animals. For example embryos implanted into feed lot steers, so they will be useful while waiting around to be killed. There is no reason that it could not be done with humans, other than the religious nuts freaking out I guess.
There is a website purporting to show the first male pregnancy. Of course it is a hoax site and the guy has been pregnant a few years now, but interesting.
http://www.malepregnancy.com/
2007-08-05 15:17:29 · answer #3 · answered by madcat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking at all the "advances" achieved in just the last 20 years, let alone the last 100, it seems like a very real possiblity if anyone actually wants to do it. Sciences are still controlled by men, and they want no part of such an achievement.
That would spell the end of overpopulation!
2007-08-05 15:18:55 · answer #4 · answered by Patsy A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I could get pregnant. I would me a millionaire and pray to god they take the baby by Cesarean.
Eventually they may. But there would have to be a lot of changes made.
2007-08-05 15:19:01 · answer #5 · answered by smittybo20 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be
2007-08-05 18:05:46 · answer #6 · answered by ashraf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure,but I think they should! And I want my boyfriend to be their first client to test on! He needs to finally understand what I am going through instead of telling me what to wear and how to stop complaining.
2007-08-05 18:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even if they do, it is not ethnically responsible. Women were meant by God to create children, and science should not interfere with that.
2007-08-05 15:17:50 · answer #8 · answered by chanelcutie. 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As Anna Quindlen has put it, "I'd buy tickets for that!"
2007-08-05 20:22:29 · answer #9 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why would we want more baby makers?
2007-08-05 17:32:57 · answer #10 · answered by andy c 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋