Biotechnology is being harnessed to accelerate social-revolutionary policies and cross what were once immutable. moral boundaries. The latest example occurred in China—where scientific ethics go to die. Here’s the story: Two Shanghai-based researchers surgically attached male and female rats. They then transplanted uteruses into male rats and ensured that the females’ blood nurtured the organs now in the male bodies. The male rats were then “impregnated” via IVF and embryo transfer, and some of the males became, well, mothers. “For the first time, a mammalian animal model of male pregnancy was constructed by us,” the researchers bragged in a paper published by BioRXiv, an open access journal hosted by Cold Spring Harbor. Why do that? Part of the impetus may have been to advance a deeply yearned goal of the transgender movement, that is, to enable transwomen—biological males who identify as female—to give birth. Indeed, some in bioethics consider that …