Oregon Pregnant Man's Action Ethically Wrong

Today's issue of eMaxHealth has an interesting story that an Oregon man has become pregnant and is already 22 weeks ahead in Pregnancy. The man's name is Thomas Beatie who lives with his wife Nancy in Oregon. While the issue of male pregnancy is very intriguing it's also very controversial since a man becoming pregnant is very unique event in the history of human existence.

eMaxHealth story reads that "Mr Beatie is legally male and lives with his wife, Nancy, in Bend, Oregon. Thomas Beatie, of course, is actually a girl. She took some steps toward a sex change operation but did not complete the reproductive goodies."

His wife Mrs Beatie was unable to conceive, having suffered severe endometriosis and undergone a hysterectomy, her husband Thomas writes.

"Therefore, they decided that Thomas Beatie should try to carry a baby. Thomas stopped the hormone injections and his periods returned, he writes. This is how we the story of a man becoming pregnant," continues eMaxHealth.

What is the ethics involved in this story? I feel that this is just an egocentric experience on the couple's side. Thomas Beatie's wife could not conceive and they tried to take an advantage of his previous sex and go back to being a girl or who knows what. Let's say it's even cool. Huge media attention, perhaps some celebrity attributes and a chance to become the "hero" of a very unique experiment.

However, have the pregnant man and his wife ever thought about the future of the child and about the infant's health? How come we learn about this issue when he is already 22 weeks ahead in pregnancy, but not from the outset?

In any case we consider this morally wrong a a game with your own sex and an experiment with your future child.

A huge desire to have children could result in adopting a poor child and making one child from an orphanage happier with a loving family, but not in a way of a woman becoming legally man and then becoming back woman and then being called a pregnant man.

Source: http://www.huliq.com/54928/oregon-pregnant-man039s-action-ethically-wrong