• Question: will it ever be possible for a man to have a baby ???

    Asked by chubbychubson to Sarah, Panos, Michael, Mark, MarkF on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sarah Burl

      Sarah Burl answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Unless we change some of the inside bits of the man, but in theory it could be possible to have a baby without a man, but it would nver be ethical to clone a human being!

    • Photo: Mark Fogg

      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Men can already have babies, they just need a woman to ‘help’. 😉

      It is actually ‘theoretically’ possible for men to have babies, though I am almost certain it will never be done practically. Why is it possible? Very occasionally, in women, babies have been known to grow outside the womb. The babies placenta has been known to attach to the intestines, this is a form of ‘ectopic pregnancy’. Therefore it’s ‘theoretically’ possible that men could have babies grow inside them whilst attached to their intestines and with the help of hormone injections. I wouldn’t like it, sounds very uncomfortable?!?!? 😉

    • Photo: Mark Travis

      Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      In the US, a person who was born female but is now officially classified as a man (due to having a sex change) has given birth (they kept their original female reproductive organs). So in this sense it has already happened! But, in terms of the general male population, without ovaries I think they will struggle….

    • Photo: Panos Soultanas

      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hmmm!. No need the women are perfectly adapted to have a baby. A man’s body has the wrong anatomy for this.

    • Photo: Michael Loughlin

      Michael Loughlin answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      i think it may be possible for a man to carry a child within him but then we get onto very tricky ground comparing sex to gender and so on…
      as for the whole impregnation growth in womb?…no probably not…but good question

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