Scientists say same-sex couples may soon be able to produce biological children together

[Dexter]

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Science/article1522406.ece

Scientists have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex.

The breakthrough raises the prospect of the first fully “manufactured” baby made in a laboratory dish from the skin cells of two adults of the same gender.

The researchers admitted that the development raised serious ethical issues, but said it would help people who had become infertile through disease and had also prompted interest from gay people.

The breakthrough, funded by the Wellcome Trust, was achieved at Cambridge University in a project with Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.

[PzLdr]

Oh, goody!

[jmyrlefuller]

Scientists have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex.

From skin? Yeah, the shortest-lived of all cells in the human body. That couldn't POSSIBLY go wrong. /sarc

[Oceander]

Question: if the couple in question is male-male, where does the womb come from?

[Dexter]

Question: if the couple in question is male-male, where does the womb come from?

They would probably have to find a host mother to carry a child that was not biologically her own. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point down the road they were able to create an artificial womb for the embryo to grow in.

[alicewonders]

From skin? Yeah, the shortest-lived of all cells in the human body. That couldn't POSSIBLY go wrong. /sarc

It's alive!  It's ALIVE!

[flowers]

bkmk

[Oceander]

They would probably have to find a host mother to carry a child that was not biologically her own. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point down the road they were able to create an artificial womb for the embryo to grow in.

Then it wouldn't be "their" child, now would it? 

[Dexter]

Then it wouldn't be "their" child, now would it?

Genetically yes, it would be their child. They would just be using a womb that shares no genetic relation to the child.

[jmyrlefuller]

Then it wouldn't be "their" child, now would it?

Just as much as it would be with any surrogate mother.

[musiclady]

It just gets sicker and sicker......