I feel a little stupid for posting this but here goes... My friend told me that a lesbian couple can make their own babies without male assistance. Well maybe not 100% without a man but she said we can take a sperm and eject the male DNA and inject it with lesbian A's DNA and then fertilize lesbian B's egg with the sperm and therefore it will create a child... but the child will be female because it's DNA would only be consisted of the XX chromosome and no Y chromosome at all... Can anyone confirm this and provide any information on it? Has it been successful in recent studies? This is very interesting to me. :redface:
never heard of this but sounds interesting.... the only story i've heard of lesbians making their own baby was a case where a woman (born male) had her sperm frozen before she had a sex change and later ended up using her sperm to create a baby with her girlfriend
That is EXACTLY what I intend to do for myself. I want to have my own children once I meet someone & settle down after I have had my GRS. I even desperately went thru a phase in my early 20s for a few years where I just wanted to be pregnant so badly. When I first heard about this, it at least gave me a little hope that I could have children, even if I couldn't be the one to give birth to them...
So far as i remember from what i have read, the closest this has come to being reality is a substitution of mitochondrial DNA in one woman's egg with that of another woman's egg. Fertilisation still required a sperm, so in effect the child created had 3 parents. I believe this was done because of a problem with the recipient's mitichondrial DNA. Remember though, mitochondrial DNA accounts for a tiny part of the whole sequence.
It's never been done with humans, although it's been successful in several experiments with animals. Either way, sperm is still required.
I know it's been done with mice and other animals already, with two fathers and no mother, even. One Mouse, Two Dads? : Discovery News GNN - Mice with Two Mothers
It took like 500 mice to have 2 live births, so I don't think it's going to be implemented in humans anytime soon, unfortunately.
There's some science fiction written from this premise. Some feminists back in the 60s (I think) had a field day with it.
Babies from same-sex parents would be nothing short of a Frankenstenian biological nightmare. I'd just stick to surrogacy and adoption.
Okay thank you all for this information, I knew it sounded too good to be true. I guess my friend doesn't know what she is talking about!
