Posted on 12/29/2004 3:53:03 PM PST by sure_fine
Romanian doctors say a 67-year-old woman is seven months pregnant with twin girls after fertility treatment. If the pregnancy comes to full term, it is believed that Adriana Iliescu, an author and academic, will become the oldest recorded mother.
Mrs Iliescu told local television she had always wanted to be a mother but had been unable to conceive naturally.
She says she is optimistic about her future as a mother, claiming her family has a history of longevity.
Last year, a 65-year-old Indian woman gave birth to a boy.
Schoolteacher Satyabhama Mahapatra from Nayagarh in Orissa had been impregnated with an egg from her 26-year-old niece that had been fertilised by her husband.
It was the first child for Ms Mahapatra and her husband who had been married for 50 years.
Kentucky comments in 3...2...1...
I'm speechless. This is absurd, revolting, and just plain sick. What happens when the kids are 24 and out of college? At 2:00, get your diploma; at 5:00, get your mom cremated? Oy vey... There's a reason your body stops being able to have children.
And who are the parents of Mrs. Iliescu's children? And is she MAD? I expect to have babies when I'm over 40 (given my history) but this is ridiculous!
Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD.
I wish people would spend more time deploring the out-of-reproduction of uneducated, unemployed, irresponsible young people, than the handful of educated, financially secure women who are giving birth in their 50s and 60s.
That was supposed to read: "out-of-CONTROL reproduction"
This is a good example that just because we can do something does`nt mean we should do it.
Thank you. I was just going to say that. Who is going to raise those kids after she gets feeble?
I got royally flamed on one of these threads about a different woman for suggesting that she was selfish. Sheesh! I was exhausted with my last at 38.
I think she did it to get a tax credit.
IMO, it's one thing when it's your children and your husband's, naturally conceived. It's something else again when it's somebody else's children, manufactured because a woman wants to "give birth" to fulfill some personal need. Get a kitten, already, or take in foster children.
Yes, and think of the ''joy'' she'll have when
the kids turn 14.....and dysfunctional.
That assumes she'll be above room temperature at the time.
That's the really weird part of the story.
Try to put it in perspective. There are very few women having babies at these very advanced ages. Generally they have a solid plan for who will take care of the children if the mother dies before the child is really an adult. In the case of the 65-year-old Indian woman, the baby was clearly the project of an extended family from the beginning, with the niece enthusiastically donating the eggs, and the niece and other younger relatives clearly expecting to be actively involved in raising the child. On the other hand, we have untold millions of teenagers and young adults around the world having babies, when it will clearly force them onto public assistance (regardless of whether they are married or not) if they are in a country that provides that, or in third world countries, force the whole family into malnutrition, cessation of any education, and various other evils.
The numbers of women having babies in their late 50s and 60s is microscopic, and they are very healthy when they start the process. There will be many more children orphaned by young parents' accidents and illnesses, than by advanced-age mothers dying at the natural time.
I wonder if Mrs Iliescu's twins will be out of diapers before she's into them.
Well, that explains a lot.
Married at 15. I guess the husband was fertile ...
Oh to be 80 with teenagers; them kids are gonna have some fun
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.