ABSTRACT
Reproduction is a fundamental and integral part of an individual's private and family life. As scientific technologies continue to race ahead, it is clear that reproductive technology advances on the horizon, such as womb transplants, have the potential to further transform family formations and within them the allocation of responsibilities for children. One reproductive technology, somewhere on the horizon, which offers the potential to radically transform family formation is that of womb transplant technology. Animal research into this advance has been underway since the 1960s and the primate uterus can now be perfused, preserved and circulated with blood post transplantation. Womb transplants for male to female (MtF) transsexual women would pose novel challenges in determining how parental status and responsibility should be ascribed. As scientists continue in their endeavours to attain the first pregnancy through womb transplantation, it is imperative that we begin to imagine a different family form in order to reflect upon regulation of family responsibility.
