Innocent In Vitro ?
by Rage on May.18, 2009, under All Today's Rage
Have Money, Success and no time for children during the younger years? Solution: Buy one!
Here we go again as I stated last month. An irresponsible mother seeking IVF treatments reaching an irrevocable path. Dr’s and experts alike agree that the outcome could prove to be dangerous. Hopefully the mother will live another 20-30 years for the child and the child will not grow up depressed and vengeful of her decision. It’s not up to me, I just seek rationality.
I have to admit people’s private lives are there own to live but when it affects an innocent child I cannot find an understanding! When does it become right for another to decide a young ones fate or future? Who gets to shift life’s balance once its provided out of a natural state. The Doctors and IVF’s clinic’s certainly do not.
I understand In Vitro Fertilization can correct certain medical conditions but a moralistic approach should be taken and understood. The technology should not out rule society’s dilemma.
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Courtesy of BBC News UK
A businesswoman who at 66 is to become Britain’s oldest mother says she does not have to defend her decision.
Elizabeth Adeney, of Lidgate, Suffolk, is eight months’ pregnant after undergoing IVF treatment in Ukraine, according to the Sunday Mirror.
She told the paper her age was not important, claiming it is “how I feel inside” that matters.
Ms Adeney said she felt as young as 39 at times and was fitter than some of her younger employees.
“It doesn’t interest me that I’m going to be the oldest mum in the country,” she told the paper, before revealing she planned to give birth at a clinic in Cambridge.
Most British clinics will not offer IVF treatment to women over the age of 50.
Ms Adeney, who runs a manufacturing business near her home and will be 67 in July, said: “I have young girls working for me in my factory and I’m fitter than half of them.
“I don’t have to defend what I’ve done. It’s between me, my baby and no-one else.”
Professor Severino Antinori, who helped 62-year-old Briton Patricia Rashbrook give birth three years ago, said he was shocked at the prospect of Ms Adeney having a child.
“I respect the choice medically but I think anything over 63 is risky because you cannot guarantee the child will have a loving mother or family,” he told The Sunday Times.
However, Dr Gillian Lockwood told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme that improved life expectancy meant a healthy woman of 66 would probably live another 20 or 30 years.
Using donor eggs from a younger woman reduced the risks of miscarriage or abnormalities to the child, said Dr Lockwood, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology.
She said it would be “unfair” to discriminate on ground of age alone, adding: “We don’t prevent much younger women with serious health problems getting pregnant… even though they run much higher risks.”
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May 19th, 2009 on 12:12 am
This has got to be the worst case yet. I say yet because we have yet to see what else happens to top this one. Manomom – Octomom – Oldomom – Whats Next ? I can only guess.
June 6th, 2009 on 9:44 am
- It’s very nice to see that you all care about those who cannot take an active stand for themselves, in this case – the unborn children. I wish there was less selfishness and more of sensibility in people. Yet, as no one of human beings is perfect, I suggest to refrain from any public judgment, especially when it comes to someone else’s private matter. And bringing a new life into this world is always a blessing in my opinion.
June 9th, 2009 on 1:30 pm
It sounds like this woman is making a terrible decision, but it is her decision. At its roots it’s a woman’s rights issue (since there is no comparable male right for men). If you think a 66 year old woman having a baby (or a young women having eight at once) is wrong (as I do) there are two approaches: 1) legislate to stop it, or 2) educate and discourage so this happens as rarely as possible. Attempting to make a law is an unlikely proposition. Where do you draw the line (age 50, 55, 60)? Every persons health, maturity and financial wherewithal is different. What about a young woman with a terminal disease? Should we stop that as well since she won’t be around to raise her child? How many babies at once is OK? 3, 4, 5? Unlikely that a legal approach would ever work. So that leaves education and discouragement. This is the most likely way to reduce these cases. The fact that most clinics will not offer IVF to patients over 50 shows that education and discouragement are working in the real world. Your Rage about it, and other folks reading and thinking about the subject helps this point as well.
I will avoid the bigger philosophical issue implied in your post: whether a child is better off not being born at all vs. being born to a mother who may die in the child’s youth. As Aelita says, “bringing a new life into this world is always a blessing”.