An Actual (kind of…) Immaculate Conception
Discoblog has released their top 10 weirdest science stories of the year, and number 1 is also one of my favourites.
It is a case report from the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, entitled:
They have the full text on their blog here, but I will summarize.
A 15-year old girl is admitted to hospital with a stab wound to the abdomen, received during a knife fight between her ex-boyfriend and her new boyfriend. She was treated and released a few days later.
278 days after the incident, she came back to the hospital with severe abdominal pain. Turns out she was pregnant. However…
Inspection of the vulva showed no vagina, only a shallow skin dimple was present below the external urethral meatus and between the labia minora. An emergency lower segment caesarean section was performed under spinal anaesthesia and a live male infant weighing 2800 g was born
So the girl had no vagina. So how did she get pregnant?
Just before she was stabbed in the abdomen she had practised fellatio with her new boyfriend and was caught in the act by her former lover. The fight with knives ensued. She had never had a period and there was no trace of lochia after the caesarean section…
A plausible explanation for this pregnancy is that spermatozoa gained access to the reproductive organs via the injured gastrointestinal tract.
Yes, you read that right. She went down on her boyfriend, got stabbed, and the sperm went from her stomach into her reproductive system.
If that’s not miraculous, I don’t know what is. Although the author of the case study does say that
The fact that the son resembled the father excludes an even more miraculous conception.
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