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The operation could offer hope of a normal family for 14,000 women in Britain who are born without a womb or have had an early hysterectomy due to diseases such as cancer.

Doctors have said for these women a womb transplant would be a more 'ethical solution' to infertility than seeking a surrogate.

The aim is to transplant a womb from a brain-dead donor to enable the recipient to conceive through IVF and have one or two babies before the organ was removed again.

Removing the womb would spare women a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs which can increase the risk of cancer.

The news follows successful ovarian transplants which have led to the births of 28 babies worldwide.

The procedure may be controversial because it is not a life saving transplant.

The project, headed by gynaecological surgeon Richard Smith, from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the private Lister Hospital in London, was stalled four years ago due to a lack of funds.

He is now launching a charity, Uterine Transplantation UK, to raise £500,000 necessary to carry out the...