Modern medicine making babies

It’s amazing what modern medicine can do to help women have children these days. Women who would never before have been able to conceive, yet alone carry a baby to viability, are having children and living to raise them.

A 33-year-old woman in Denmark, for example, was featured in an Associated Press article this week after surviving bone cancer, undergoing an ovary transplant and then going on to have two healthy children.

Her cancer treatment would have basically killed her ovaries, so the woman had pieces of her ovary frozen until her cancer was gone. After 20 percent of her ovary was transplanted back in, she went on to have one baby by In-vitro and then one naturally. That is so amazing to me. What a great blessing for this woman to have children despite the curveball of cancer hitting her in her 20s.

I know that modern medicine can sometimes go overboard and cross ethical boundaries. Just because we can do incredible things to bring babies into this world doesn’t necessarily mean we should. But in this case of this woman who fought cancer and now gets the chance to raise her two children, modern medicine can truly be a miracle.

Have you ever witnesses modern medicine making it possible for your or someone you know to have a baby? Are there times when you think today’s fertility treatments go too far or does the end of bringing a life into the world justify any means?