STOP uterus for rent! STOP natural pregnancies! Better to USE women (and men) in brain DEATH

… for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate

… We already know that pregnancies can be successfully carried to term in brain-dead women

… There is no obvious medical reason why initiating such pregnancies would not be possible

… should be an option for anyone who wishes to avoid the risks and burdens of gestating a foetus in their own body

… Thus, wherever organ donation is legal, brain-dead WBGD [ Whole Body Gestational Donation ] would be a relatively simple tweak to that framework

… The patient moves from being the focus of medical concern, to being a repository of tissues that can be used to benefit others

… a surgical affair, preceded and followed by appropriate hormonal therapy to ensure maximal chance of success

… WBGD donors are as dead as other donors – no more, no less

… preferable alternative to uterus donation and surrogacy and even to pregnancy itself

… Abortion, especially late term abortion, can be traumatic for gestating women both emotionally and physically

… in the case of WBGD, the gestating woman is already dead and cannot be harmed

… If she needs more or less of any particular drug or if foetal interventions are required, we have none of the potential conflict that can affect ordinary pregnancies

… Parents may transfer as many embryos as they can generate … and if necessary, discarding any damaged or diseased ones in advance

… are processes that are routine in fertility medicine across the globe

… pregnancy itself should properly speaking be medically contra-indicated for women generally

… at in a comparison between pregnancy and measles, pregnancy comes out considerably the worse in terms of morbidity and mortality

… We cannot yet forego the uterus altogether for the reproduction of our species

… But we can transfer the risks of gestation to those who are no longer able to be harmed

… feminist concerns, however, might be mitigated if men could also participate in WBGD

… male pregnancy is not, as many would imagine, fanciful, or a piece of science fiction

… pregnancies can come to term outside the uterus. The liver is a promising implantation site

… could be risky – even fatal

… But for brain-dead donors, the concept ‘fatal’ is meaningless: the gestator is already dead