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* Just so it doesn't get added here again: There was a hoax/art-project about actually accomplishing this a while back by a guy called Lee Mingwei. It never happened. You can be forgiven for thinking it did, though:
** Turns out this ''is'' apparently based on [[The Tasteless But True Story|real science]]! See for instance [http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/malepreg.asp here] (the Snopes article debunking the hoax) and [http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-07/male-pregnancy-dangerous-proposition here] (the ''Popular Science'' article ''"Male Pregnancy: A Dangerous Proposition"''.
** In the mid-eighties, following up on some work he had done on the topic, popular-science writer Dick Teresi wangled $500,000 from the publisher of [[Omni]] Magazine to work with prominent fertility researcher [[wikipedia:Cecil Jacobson|Cecil Jacobson]] on the first human male pregnancy (and secure a multi-million dollar book deal in the process). Unfortunately, he had second thoughts when he realized (a) how dangerous an [
** What interested Jacobson in the idea is that he claimed to have successfully [[Animal Testing|impregnated a male baboon]] in the 1960s, which carried the fetus for four months.[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/27/magazine/how-to-get-a-man-pregnant.html?pagewanted=all\] No, not like ''[[Squick|THAT!]]''
* Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal from 1954-1957 and 1960-1986, said "The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby." Political cartoons showed him as very pregnant following the 1976 Olympics, which left Montreal with a 1 billion dollar debt that took them a full 3 decades to pay off.
* Female-to-Male [[
** [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] News reported in March 2008 about Thomas Beatie, a transgendered female-to-male resident of Bend, Oregon who never had genital reconstructive surgery (since it is not necessary in order to legally change one's sex in that state). Since his wife could not get pregnant and his own biologically-female reproductive system was still functional, he offered to carry the child himself. Using artificial insemination, Beatie has given birth to a girl and a boy as of this edit (June 17, 2009) and is planning to have a third child.
** Discovery Health ran a special called 'Transgendered and Pregnant' recently. A married couple consisting of a trans woman<ref>Male-to-Female.</ref> and trans man<ref>Guess.</ref> get pregnant during the latter half of their hormone therapy. The dad of the pair is the one carrying the child.
* Also the condition of [[wikipedia:Fetus in fetu|Fetus in Fetu]], in which a baby develops a second (at least partial) twin inside itself. The result is that the outer human can [https://web.archive.org/web/20130319040647/http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2346476 appear pregnant].
* Science fiction Author [[Larry Niven]] actually suggested this as the only safe way Superman and Lois Lane could have a baby in ''[http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex]''. Superman would have to carry.
* [http://hinoneko.deviantart.com/art/Seahorse-Fanfiction-75876070 This] little comic parodies this with cute little seahorses.
* Many different species of fish can change gender back and forth in order to maintain population ratios. Hyenas also had a reputation for being of only one gender {{spoiler|that impregnate and birth through their penis}}, although science has shown that they're actually just androgynous. Cross reference [[wikipedia:Hermaphrodite|Hermaphrodite at The Other Wiki]].
** They do, however still give birth through
* There is a condition known as couvade syndrome (aka sympathetic pregnancy), in which men with pregnant spouses will experience symptoms of pregnancy themselves, such as morning sickness or weight gain. It was originally assumed to be an old wives tale, although recent research has found that men actually do experience hormonal changes during pregnancy, possibly as the result of
* The rare case of a successful abdominal pregnancy, in which a fertilized egg travels through the Fallopian tube in the wrong direction and implants itself outside the uterus, suggests that having a uterus isn't 100% mandatory for carrying a child to term. Given the risks inherent in ectopic pregnancies, it's unlikely that fertility clinics will be offering this option to men any time soon.
* Sooner than we develop the medical procedures to make male pregnancy safe, we're very likely to develop the [[wikipedia:Artificial uterus|artificial uterus]], though we're still working out the kinks of both environment and transition process.
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