Should There Be A Maximum Age Limit For IVF Treatment? ( Archived) (31)

Until we stop looking at kids as a fashion accessory and start asking if we have the time to nurture them into balanced adults then we will reap what we sew. How can a woman who is nearly 70 expect to be guiding her kids through life. To me it's just as bad as these career couples who pop out kids and employ others to raise them. Downright selfish with no concern for the children involved.

JMO

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And on a practical note as someone who had children in her twenties and thirties I know the difficulties of teenagers now and honestly dont thinkk I could handle that if I was say my Mothers age.

but is it not the duty of every parent to give the best possible life to an infant? not just the 1st ten yrs but atleast the 1st 20...? now i know i know... sure there are nannys length and breath of country raising kids... but on a personnal bassis my mum at 72 is just not able to handle my 3 at
any lenghth over an hour..nor would i ask her to...

i think there is a cap on age comming up here? but what age is it?thats the tough question...and the other question is of the addoption issue.. there are 1000`s of babys out there.. if a lady can afford ivf..surely she must have met the criteria for addoption.. i dont know??
this is a tricky one all round?? jmo[/quote

I think adoption is a whole other thread in itself, it seems from what i heard there are so many hoops to be jumped thru and so much red tape, and then theres the fact that children over a certain age have very little chance of been chosen... its just too sad for words...

Well Ro the difference there is that the guys role isnt as pysically demanding as the womans. Pregnancy and givin birth can take huge toll on the body, mentally and physically

Oh I agree with ya but just throwing out the idea that it's ok for an older man to be a parent but its not ok for an older woman.

Adoption is wonderful but there's so much red tape.
One of my best friends has been fostering a little boy with special needs since he was three months old, he's now seven years old. She's a fantastic mum and is only in her early thirties as is her husband. They'll never be allowed to adopt this gorgeous little boy who they have had so long and have seen through surgery after surgery because they're overweight.
Anyway that's a completely different thread IMO

yes i think there should be so that the mothers are around for their kids

Im all for people doing what ever they can to have children whether they use surrogates or AR, IVF or what ever means, BUT nature has said that woman shouldnt have children at her age.Im sure at 66/67 when she had the children she had already gone through the menopause and that was natures way of telling her she was too old to have children. This is nothing to do with women who havent gone through the menopause using assisted methods to get pregnant but in this case her body has told her she was too old to have children. JMO

I think the max age for IVF here is 42-43.

Sometimes mother nature does know best !!

That's an interesting Medical discovery!! Ladies TAKE NOTE!! your days are numbered

Why should an age limit be put on a woman having IVF, after all isn't it theirRIGHT TO CHOOSE to do what they want with their bodies, without recognising or accepting the consequences? AT least THAT would be the view of the Liberalist Pro-Abortionists, so why restrict that 'Right' to IVF?

Life is sacred, and bringing a life into this crazy world should be 'natural' and not by scientific means such as IVF - but then there are always going to be self-centred and thoughtless and irresponsible people who will simply do as they wish - irrespective of the conseqences.

IVF, thankfully doesn't always work, so there is hope.

There is an age in force for her country but aperently she lied to the doctors what can they do if someone is determined enough ?

How about checking the Birth Certificate?

easy enough forged !jesus you can get a drivers licence in dublin for 200 euro and theyre good enough to produce to the gards

I am 100% in favour of IVF however there should be a max age limit.

Getting pregnant 20 years after her last period had to have its consequences on her body. It has been said that the drugs used in the fertility treatment probably caused the disease to spread.

Please excuse my copy and pasting but i found an article on this subject and thought this excerpt made some interesting points

Many American fertility clinics refuse to inseminate women beyond a set age. In Brousada's case, she had to lie to the Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles, claiming she was actually fifty-five, in order to qualify for treatment. At that time, the clinic's director, Vicken Sahakian, expressed indignation at Brousada's deceit and promised "to be more careful" in the future. Other hospitals set limits as young as fifty. What is not so clear is why these clinics impose such age restrictions. Are they concerned for the physical health of the mother during pregnancy? Or do they merely have ethical qualms about women embarking on child-rearing beyond a certain age?

During an off-the-record conversation with the head of one leading IVF program, the director candidly told The Huffington Post that social, rather than medical, factors were the primary determinant in his clinic's age limit. "You have to draw a line somewhere," he said. I followed up by asking whether his program sets any age limit for the male partners of these women. It does not. Nor does any other American fertility clinic, as far as I can tell. So while a sixty year-old woman with a twenty-five year-old husband will have difficulty obtaining IVF in the United States, a forty-nine year-old woman with an eighty-five year-old husband will face no age limits--even though the child of the twenty-five year-old is far more likely to have at least one parent survive into adulthood. If these cutoffs are imposed for purely social reasons, rather than medical ones, then they appear to be both illogical and discriminatory. It is not even clear to me that they should be legal. The right to IVF is only meaningful if physicians will actually provide it. Unless clinics can do a better job of justifying their policies on medical grounds, state legislatures should seriously consider rules banning such arbitrary age limits--particularly in hospitals and clinics paid for with public or publicly-mandated funds.

To the two people one male one female in the 18-40 age bracket who voted "who cares?"
I would be interested to hear your views. Do you not think that someday the issue of IVF could effect you or someone close to you? Or is it just indifference? or do you just think issues like this shouldn't be talked about on a dating site?

To the one person who thinks IVF is wrong. Let us hear your views.

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