Male pregnancy
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I don’t think this particular case is for real. The Time cover they show has no date. I couldn’t find any reference to this on the Time web site. I would think there would be all sorts of coverage of this in both the popular media and the medical journals. Not just the few links they have on this malepregnancy site.
However, male pregnancy isn’t so crazy. Women have abdominal pregnancies where the egg attaches and starts developing somewhere outside the uterus. Generally they are not viable. I remember a case about 10 years ago where a large woman with a hysterectomy had an abdominal pregnancy where the egg attached to the abdominal wall, I believe. The details are a little vague, but as I remember the fetus was at something like 6 months developed by the time they discovered it. I believe they operated and the baby survived. The one thing I definitely remember is that they used this as an example that if this woman could get “pregnant” then it was at least theoretically possible that men could get pregnant and have babies also. It seemed it was just a little later that the movie Junior came out.
I’m actually surprised there hasn’t been a male pregnancy, or at least some attempt. If something is possible, you know somebody out there is going to try it.
However, male pregnancy isn’t so crazy. Women have abdominal pregnancies where the egg attaches and starts developing somewhere outside the uterus. Generally they are not viable. I remember a case about 10 years ago where a large woman with a hysterectomy had an abdominal pregnancy where the egg attached to the abdominal wall, I believe. The details are a little vague, but as I remember the fetus was at something like 6 months developed by the time they discovered it. I believe they operated and the baby survived. The one thing I definitely remember is that they used this as an example that if this woman could get “pregnant” then it was at least theoretically possible that men could get pregnant and have babies also. It seemed it was just a little later that the movie Junior came out.
I’m actually surprised there hasn’t been a male pregnancy, or at least some attempt. If something is possible, you know somebody out there is going to try it.
Man who eats babies
Unfortunately this is for real. The following is a quote from the teminalcity publication
Zhu spent months trying to recruit an informed volunteer, a woman, to participate in the project with him. His intention was to impregnate her, then at three months, abort the child. In some ways, I am relieved that he was unsuccessful in finding a volunteer. That said, he did eventually hire a prostitute, with whom he had a long conversation about her belief in the project; he needed to know that she did not feel coerced in any way, and that she understood and agreed with the principles of the work. He was afraid of feminist backlash, and it did come. The work proceeded, and after aborting the foetus to a public viewing, he then offered it to a small dog to eat.
http://www.terminalcity.ca/Arts+and+Lit/current/Zhu+Yu.htm
Unfortunately this is for real. The following is a quote from the teminalcity publication
Zhu spent months trying to recruit an informed volunteer, a woman, to participate in the project with him. His intention was to impregnate her, then at three months, abort the child. In some ways, I am relieved that he was unsuccessful in finding a volunteer. That said, he did eventually hire a prostitute, with whom he had a long conversation about her belief in the project; he needed to know that she did not feel coerced in any way, and that she understood and agreed with the principles of the work. He was afraid of feminist backlash, and it did come. The work proceeded, and after aborting the foetus to a public viewing, he then offered it to a small dog to eat.
http://www.terminalcity.ca/Arts+and+Lit/current/Zhu+Yu.htm
