There’s exciting medical news this week for women who want to give birth but don’t have a uterus — needed to become pregnant and give birth — because it was removed due to illness or they were born without one. According to estimates, approximately 50,000 American women may be candidates for the uterine transplant just performed in the U.S.
The Cleveland Clinic announced they successfully performed the nine-hour surgery on a 26-year-old woman on Feb. 24th, marking the first time it has been performed in the US.