[DangitBobby]

Well, they were capable of consent and consented. I also doubt that they had their circulatory system fused with another female human by surgically splicing them together. I imagine they would have declined if that were the case.

[perl4ever]

How her suffering and death (in 1931) compared with the rats is irrelevant to my point which is just about the value of the research to humans.

I can't argue whether someone should be concerned about humans or rats and how much and what experiments are worth it. How you balance one creature's suffering with another. Nobody can or has ever answered that.

I meant to counter the idea that transplanting a uterus has to be without purpose and can only be attributed to idle cruelty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe