Doctors have rejected calls to place an age limit on women seeking IVF, after it emerged that a 59-year-old woman is trying to obtain the treatment at a Harley Street clinic.
Is having a child at that age unnatural and selfish? Or do you agree that an age limit should not be imposed?
Have your say...
tricky one! i think that there should be a cut-off limit. I don't think it's right for women to be allowed to have IVF beyond when they could naturally have children, especially those who already have them. it's tough on their bodies, tough on the child and would be very difficult to lose a parent so young simply because they're old.
such a tough question. i'm undecided but i do veer towards the choice of the individual and we shouldn't legislate in such cases. everyone is living for longer now, and in increasingly better health. who's to say a hale and hearty 59 year old won't still be going strong 20 years later? having said that, the population explosion is and surely it would be far better to adopt. hmm.
there should definitely be a cap. there's a serious problem with an exploding surplus population anyway without western women being given IVF when they're far too old to have kids anyway. It's really selfish
I don't agree it is selfish in terms of having much effect on the planet's exploding population, but in other ways, yes. However, who knows how long those people now in their fifties are going to live for?
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