Fruit of the Womb

Blessed is the fruit of the womb.

Luke

Will wonders of technology never cease

From Sweden comes this press release

In Stockholm nine  infertile  women

Who desperately desired children

Have received a uterine transplant

The new organ may be able an implant to receive

And at long last,  women will be able to conceive.

The  transplant has no fallopian tube connections

Future pregnancies will have to take new directions

The women’s ovaries will be able  make eggs,

In the uterus eggs for sperm can serve as pegs.

Onto which ova can be fertilized.

And a new human can be realized.

There are two catches to this technology,

One relates to a matter of ethnology.

Who is willing and able to be the uterus donor

In this case a relative was the previous owner

Two involves an unanswered and unanswerable question of immunology

That is, immunosuppressive drugs’ effects on the new  infants’ pathology

Reproductive engineering

Is with nature interfering.

And nature may be unforgiving

For a technological misgiving.