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Over-50s 'have a right to IVF', says top fertility doctor
Catherine McDiarmid-Watt |
Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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Women who are over 50 should have the right to fertility treatment, a top British scientist said today.
Professor Ian Craft said those opposed to older women becoming mothers are guilty of a 'police state mentality'.
The controversial doctor from the London Fertility Centre told a meeting of fertility experts that women have given birth after the menopause, which justifies giving those in their fifties IVF treatment.
Professor Craft, whose clinic helped a 56-year-old woman get pregnant, said: 'Knowing that natural conceptions do occur, why should infertile women be denied treatment that occurs naturally, whether they still menstruate or not?
Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1033366/Over-50s-right-IVF-says-fertility-doctor.html
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About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.
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Women who are over 50 should have the right to fertility treatment, a top British scientist said today.
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