Reuters AlertNet Lite - 67 too old to give birth says Italian fertility doctor

Reuters AlertNet Full site

NEWSDESK

67 too old to give birth says Italian fertility doctor

02 Jan 2007 11:22:08 GMT
Source: Reuters

ROME, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Having a baby at 67 is too old, according to an Italian doctor who helped a British woman of 63 give birth last year and has made a controversial career out of boosting the fertility of older women.

Severino Antinori said a Spanish woman who gave birth to twins on Saturday at 67, four years older than Britain's oldest new mother and one year older than the existing world record, was beyond the age he considers acceptable.

"What's happened in Spain is reprehensible," Antinori was quoted as saying in La Stampa daily on Tuesday. "Having a baby isn't like drinking a glass of water, there are criteria, and one of these is an age limit."

"The aim isn't to make babies which will soon become orphans."

Antinori's controversial work in reproduction was one of the factors that forced Italy to make tough rules limiting access to IVF treatments and he now works in Ukraine where he says he has been forced into "exile" by the laws in his home country.

He once claimed to have made three women pregnant with cloned embryos, although he gave no evidence.

AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article Send comments

Topics

• Technology

• Women

MORE >>

NGO latest

• Its A Decade of Love and Care for Siphile Makore
IFRC - Switzerland

• Darfur: New violence threatens world's largest aid response
IRC - UK

• The San people of Namibia slowly adapting to modern life
IFRC - Switzerland

• southern Sudan: Medair sends an emergency water team to help prevent an outbreak of cholera.
Medair - Switzerland

• Iraq: the needs of women in times of conflict
ICRC - Switzerland

MORE >>

Latest news

• 67 too old to give birth says Italian fertility doctor

• Taiwan researchers retract report in global journal

• Physical abuse leads to adult depression - US study

• Pope says peace depends on respecting human rights

• Pope says peace depends on respecting human rights

MORE >>

Last updated:Tue Jan 2 11:24:07 2007