Is it actually possible for men to get pregnant?:
Answer: In theory, yes, if the egg were fertilized in vitro and implanted in a man's abdominal cavity. The man would have to undergo hormone injections, and the child would have to be delivered by caesarian section.
Sources:
www.malepregnancy.com
www.snopes.com/pregnant/malepreg.asp
www.texperts.com
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This issue was first speculated in 1986, when the British weekly New Society ran an article discussing specifics of the procedure in 1986.
It could be done, New Society reasoned, The child would have to be male, though, or else the necessary hormone injections would effectively castrate the male host.
The dangers of such a course of action are far too high for the idea to be taken as anything more than a bit of scientific 'what if?' entertainment, however.
Although some women have successfully given birth to children conceived outside the womb, ectopic pregnancies are quite dangerous, and nearly all ectopic embryos are removed soon after diagnosis. For a man to attempt to carry a child to term in such a manner would be an unacceptably high risk.
This is made especially worse since the placenta would have to be left to decay inside the man's body after he gave \"birth,\" as its removal would result in major haemorrhaging.
However, fourteen years later, the appearance of the website at
malepregnancy.com
prompted new speculation.
The site purports to chronicle the efforts of one Lee Mingwei to carry off the 'first human male pregnancy'.
The site hosts video clips of Mr. Lee, an ultrasound video of his 'baby', an 'interview' in which he explains his reasons for having undergone this 'procedure', a discussion of how male pregnancy is scientifically possible, and a chat room where visitors can discuss the social implications of male pregnancies.
This site is not real: it is an exercise in speculative fantasy. Follow the links from the \"Credits\" section, and eventually you'll find a disclaimer which reads: This site was created to be an exploration of a very likely scenario that may one day result from new advances in biotechnology and infertility treatments.
The Site itself does not provide actual commercial services, and the information contained on the Site is not represented as being factually accurate.
This is a fictitious web site created by a single artist.
Perhaps some day these concepts might indeed become reality, but for now they exist only within the realm of fiction.
Examples of such fiction include the over-long 1978 Joan Rivers film Rabbit Test and the more merciful 1994 film Junior, in which the Governator-to-be, Arnold Schwarzenegger, plays a scientist who impregnates himself. As the tagline runs: Nothing is Inconceivable!
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