Brain-Dead Women, and Men, Should be Used as Surrogates for People Looking to Expand Their Families, Norwegian Professor Proposes

I feel like I need to stop scrolling the internet so much. All I ever seem to find is hot garbage. Sometimes the garbage is disgusting. Other times it’s creepy, and, of course, you can’t forget ridiculous. Or… in this case… all three!

From The Blaze:

A recent report by a Norwegian professor proposed that brain-dead women, and even men, should be used as surrogates “for anyone who wishes to avoid the risks and burdens of gestating a foetus in their own body.”

According to a report published in the Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics titled “Whole Body Gestational Donation” by Anna Smajdor, a professor of practical philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway, “Whole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate.”

Smajdor stated that pregnancies could be carried to term in brain-dead women, and there is no medical reason it would not be possible.

“It seems plausible that some people would be prepared to consider donating their whole bodies for gestational purposes just as some people donate parts of their bodies for organ donation,” Smajdor claims.

The report proposed implementing the existing organ donation framework to allow potential candidates to consent to become whole body gestational donors.

Smajdor addressed possible feminist concerns over WBGD and suggested that brain-stem-dead men could also be used for gestation, expanding the pool of potential donors.

“The prospect of the unconscious woman’s body, filled and used by others as a vessel, is a vivid illustration of just what feminists have fought against for many years,” the report stated. “The prospect of male pregnancy is not, as many would imagine, fanciful, or a piece of science fiction.”

Smajdor admits that the proposal may be “undoubtedly a disturbing” and “disconcerting” prospect to some.

“Of course, this proposal may seem shocking to some people,” Smajdor stated. “Nevertheless, as I have shown, if we accept that our current approach to organ donation and reproductive medicine are sound, WBGD donation seems to follow relatively smoothly from procedures that we are already undertaking separately.”

Does anybody have a bus schedule? I need to figure out which one will be most convenient for me to step in front of…

Seriously.

Just because organ donation and reproductive care are both things that “we are already undertaking separately” with success DOES NOT MEAN THEY GO TOGETHER.

Mustard? Delicious. Waffles? Delectable. Will I ever combine the two? Mmmm… hard pass.

This whole growing babies in (technically) dead people thing just seems a little too post-apocalyptic, sci-fi for me… Surely there are better ways to “grow” your family that don’t involve growing them… in a brain-dead dude? I don’t even want to go into the specifics of how the hell that would even work…

Could make for a pretty decent horror movie script, though…

I need to start watching some videos about puppies or something. This sh*t is just getting depressing… and horrifying… and gross…