Wait a minute. How are they supposed to make a baby using IP stem cell technology? The only way i can think of is by cloning one of the mothers. So actually only one of them is the biological mother.
If they wanted both to be the biological mother then they could have taken an egg cell of one and a polar body of the other and create a zygote with these two.
Its an old post but thought i'd comment - from what i understand, you would turn some cells (skin cells normally) from one woman into stem cells - (they do this all the time nowadays to make stem cells - not from embryos any more) - stem cells can be turned into ANY other kind of cell - (that's what they are - kinda proto-cells that are told what to become as we develop).
You can even turn a woman's stem cells into sperm cells - (I think stem cells come in our development even before the fetus becomes male or female) then use them to fertilise another womans egg. It isn't cloning as the baby would get dna from both. Because there are no y chromosones though, it means the baby could only be female.
That's how it would work unless I misunderstood - and it has actually been done in the lab with mice etc. Im not sure if it would be much harder to do with humans.
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