Science breaks barriers all the time. The bright minds of tomorrow want to make our lives better. What's the latest way they plan to do just that?
Ladies of the world, have you ever longed to have a child but cringed at the thought child-birth?
Well, for you ladies from the 1800s, I am here to tell you science has broken through and given you a couple of options.
You can yell for the doctor to just give you the damn drugs!
Or, you can do what Thomas Beatie and his wife did.
Thomas Beatie, born a woman, now lives as a legally transgendered married man. Thomas opted to retain his internal reproductive organs while having his outer appearance altered to resemble a man. He takes hormones and lives with his wife as a man indistinguishable by many from any other man. He even has the bulging belly! Except Thomas' belly, through the gift of artificial insemination, has for the last 5 months housed a growing baby.
Astonished? Dumbfounded? Read more at http://news.opb.org/article/bend-transgendered-man-says-he-will-give-birth/.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
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