Adam's Choice

About the Book

Thousands of babies are born every day, arriving crying and wailing in a world that greets them with jubilation and happiness. Every child reinforces the future, is born innocent and brings great joy to its parents, joy that is unknown to the women whose future is blighted by a form of infertility that cannot be cured by the best medical care. Adam’s Choice reveals that a couple’s pain and agony of mind can be removed by the simple expedient of making the man’s body suitable to provide the nourishing environment a baby needs. There are risks, maybe a 6-1 chance of non survival for the man because of infection but many men who love their woman say they want to do it and make their joint lives complete. Is not adoption a better way? Yes, maybe, but most couples want their own child and not the complications that too often arise when a third party is involved. In today’s highly charged world of clinical research, of cloning and the numerous experimentation in the field of human fertilisation and InvitroFertilisation, doctors have all the necessary tools in their hands. They are being held back from making that one big step by fear, the fear of public disapproval and, maybe the anguish of those who see babies as purely women’s work, and would consider male intervention a heinous act and one designed to demean them. It is, of course, nothing of the sort. In the years ahead, the act of chemically turning a man into a women with the use of hormonal injections, may become as celebrated as the first arrival of The Pill, an event that gave freedom, of a kind, to women. Nobody wants a Frankenstein sort of baby laboratory but we all want to help those women whose strongest, most important human emotion and desire, the wish to have a baby, is too often being cruelly thwarted. After all, nothing is more precious in our society than a baby, especially our own baby.

About the Author

Babies have always surrounded Father of two grown up children, Roy His wife Lizzie devoted her life to them, as first a midwife in a London teaching hospital and then as a mother. He saw both his children being born and believes childbirth is the major event in all our lives. Adam’s Choice has been a labour of love and is the result of interviews and research involving senior obstetritic doctors, nurses, mothers and all those people who care for the children of tomorrow. Roy is retired and lives with his wife in the South of France. He spent over 25 years in the old newspaper centre of Fleet Street and worked for several publications including The Daily Mall, Daily Express and the Mirror Group—now Trinity—. finishing his career as a Revise Editor. Before moving to France five years ago, he and Lizzie lived in West London. This is his first book. He expects to be around when a biological man makes medical history by carrying the first baby to a successful delivery.