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This is, you know, fine.

What about all those brain-stem dead female bodies in hospital beds?

Why should their wombs be going to waste?

In the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Anna Smajdor, of the University of Olso, in Norway, develops her insight. She argues that these women could be put to good use as gestational surrogates provided that they have made an advance directive. She calls this “whole body gestational donation” (WBGD).

Blessed be the fruit