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Husband Asks If Ectopic Pregnancy Good Thing (theonion.com)
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[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Very rare? It's never happened. It's considered impossible. The fetus has no way to get nutrients outside of the uterus. Maybe one day we will develop a method of transferring the fetus into the uterus or an artificial womb. Maybe. One day.

Edit: never happened in the fallopian tubes. It can attach other places but the survival rate is 1% or less.