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I'm not sure why this is preferable to a surrogate mother. It seems like it's much less risky to implant a fetus into a surrogate mother than to implant it into a transplanted womb that is removed after the pregnancy.

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It’s one of those feelings, personally. Sure, surrogate mothers and adoptions are preferable, but it’s just not the same as giving birth _myself_. It’s all in my head, I guess.

If nothing else, you're taking the medical risks on yourself. In the US there is a 26-per-100,000 mortality rate, so there is a small but nonzero chance that when you ask someone to be a surrogate they will be killed by the process.

Would you rather ask someone else to take a 0.026% chance of dying or take a (say) 5% chance of dying yourself?

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