“An aborted foetus could one day become the mother of a new baby by ‘donating’ her eggs to an infertile woman, say researchers. The highly controversial idea has been suggested as one solution to a worldwide shortage of women prepared to donate their eggs to help other women become pregnant. … Nuala Scarisbrick, from the charity Life, said she found the idea of harvesting follicles from aborted foetuses as ‘utterly grotesque’. … ‘Who would want to know that their mother was an aborted baby?'” BBC News

Also: “Human womb transplants will be possible in two or three years, Swedish scientists said on Tuesday.

Professor Mats Brannstrom, of Sahlgrenska University in Gotenburg, said women who had been born without a womb or had had it removed would be the first candidates for a transplant.

Possible donors could be a sister who has completed her family or the woman’s mother. Age would not be a barrier.” Reuters

Distinguished British historian Eric Hobsbawm writes, “Our problem is …that the U.S. empire does not know what it wants to do or can do with its power, or its limits. It merely insists that those who are not with it are against it. That is the problem of living at the apex of the ‘American Century.'” Chronicle of Higher Education

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“And there’s another nagging question: Are the activities of the coalition armed forces contributing to the attacks? In one sense, Sanchez concedes, they surely are, for U.S. units have deliberately been taking the fight to those bands of Iraqis opposed to the occupation. ‘When you go on the offensive,’ he says, ‘you are going to increase the numbers of confrontations and engagements that you have.’ More worrying is an alternative explanation: that the coalition’s heavy-handed actions are acting as a recruiting sergeant for disaffected Iraqis. Sadly, that may be the case. A U.S. official says Paul Bremer, head of the Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, has ordered a get-tough policy to assure Iraqis that the U.S. is serious about taking on Saddam’s Baath Party. It’s how that has been done that is problematic.” Time