Can you imagine a world where men would no longer be needed to reproduction? A world in which two women could even conceive a child together without using only the dna of both women and not a male donor? Well, soon you have to imagine that world thanks to Professor Karim Nayernia of the University of Newcastle.
The scientific chronicles of Nayernia's research say that sperm cells can be produced by taking bone marrow from men who cannot produce sperm. Theoretically, the same process could be implemented on a woman. This means, a lesbian couple could, by extracting bone marrow from one partner (the butch one) and implanting the produced sperm into the other partner (the not butch one) conceive a baby girl. How do I know it will be a girl? Because only an X chromosome sperm could be produced by a female. To create a baby boy, you would need both an X and Y chromosome.
Just because we have the technology available and couples who are already gnawing at the bit to try it out no matter what the cost, does that mean we should?
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