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Apologizes in advanced for my biology autism but reading your former posts I have to disagree, there are many documented cases of when a mother sustains significant injury the fetus can send stem cells in to her body to aid recovery, this is absolutely a intentionally evolved response since the mother is the life support unit for the child.
Direct cell exchange does happen, the cell membrane contains identifiers that allow each cell in your body to recognize it's own or or closely related cells.
An implanted zygote would normally get rejected by someone with a metabolism like Laura's but that's only assuming the implanted cells differ significantly enough to be identified as a potential threat. We don't know how cell markers work for mutants since it's been shown that mutants give birth to children with abilities/traits different from their own and yet their bodies don't reject the fetus (which they realistically would).
I agree with you that an implanted zygote would not be able to make use of the host mothers healing factor since cell division is regulated by the DNA of the new organism and not the mother but we don't know enough about how mutant biology works.
Remember, Laura was carried by a normal human woman, if her immune system was as powerful as it should be to survive what she does she would have killed her mother in the first trimester.
In order for Laura to have even been capable of being born, or for Logans sperm to not act like a powerful protozoan infection of any woman he has sex with there has to be some kind of built in control mechanism that suspends the healing factor to allow other biological processes to occur.
Keep in mind, cell division rates can't be static in Logan or Laura's case since they would burn though calories and vitamins/minerals at absurd rates if cell division never slowed down. The healing factor absolutely needs to have an conditional toggle for them to be able to exists.
Also, I wouldn't call it a bad deal at all. If anything it's a vastly underutilized resource, the ability of a creature to directly share biological resources with it's offspring has the potential to greatly improve survival chances. If anything it would be better to expand the connection to include nervous system conditioning, imagine if a child could be taught to recognize threats or have basic understanding of language prior to birth.
The real problem is how due to our brains being our most useful trait we have our heads are so large it complicates births, but that's another topic altogether.
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