| Thursday, June 24, 2010 | ||||||||
| Apparently, Its Never Too Late | ||||||||
A woman in Haryana, India had triplets this week. Three little angels, but by definition more than a handful for the fittest of first time moms. Only, mom here is the frail Bhateri Devi, who rings in at 66 years old. .jpg) Every few years we hear of yet another freakish success of assisted fertility. It inspires emotional accusations and defenses of the laissez-faire system and those doctors who'll try to impregnate a drag queen if there was money in it. The important thing is that the doctor behind this, one Bishnoi Anurag, had thought it through carefully. When asked if it isn't dangerous to impregnate a woman who has passed the life-expectancy in India, he explained that it is also dangerous to fly in a plane and ride a bicycle. OK, then. So in the absence of universal ethics on this issue, I'd like to propose a few guidelines that should be easy to follow, in all circumstances and cultural contexts: *If a couple are too old to remember the last time they had unassisted sex, they're too old for babies. *If a woman's breasts droop below the level that a hand-cradled baby can latch on from, she's too old for babies. *If your doctor's IQ is below the average age of the prospective mother and father, you should not be accepting his or her help. |
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