Media applauds womb transplants while ignoring maternity’s deconstruction

Last week, surgeons in England hailed the “astonishing” medical breakthrough by which a 36-year-old woman became the first in this country to give birth following a womb transplant. The Guardian reported that Grace Davidson, who has Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, a condition in which the womb never fully develops, had her baby, Amy Isabel, by caesarean section.