To think women in their 70s shouldn’t be allowed IVF treatment

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49575735
What good can come from this?

There’s another thread on this you could join.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49575735 link

Yanbu

But I can see already that someone is going to say ‘a man in his 70s can still father children......’.

Oh didn’t realise there’s another thread.

The father is in his 80s!

Nor me

Poor baby girls. Not exactly a great part of the world to be female. What will happen to them when the parents die? The dad had a stroke.

It seems a poor use of IVF treatment to me. Those poor kids will be orphans soon.

As a desperately sad single, childless 35 year old...

YA SOOOOOOOO NBU

Poor babies.

YABVVVVVU.

Just kidding, obvs.

Crikey.
Depends on extended family maybe? Unlikely to be brought up to adulthood by birth parents.

YADNBU, and tbh, I don't actually think that anyone over the age at which the average women goes through the menopause (eg, mid 50s) should be allowed to use IVF.

Wow. Asked what would happen to the children - it’s in the hands of God.
I feel sorry for the twins. They will be orphaned and no plan in place

But they weren’t ‘in the hands of god’ - in the hands of science.

Totally not unreasonable. I consider it a classic Jurassic park type scenario as the medical professionals involved said he did it because he thought it would be a challenge:

"scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

The sad truth is now 2 small children will probably be orphans before they are even into double digits and its all because they wanted to see if it was possible to successfully artificially impregnate a 70 year old. great work doc

As someone who has benefitted from IVF, I completely agree. It's quite frankly ridiculous!

It is ridiculous and some doctors in this case anyway are very egotistical. The fact that they have been part of a woman giving birth at 73 .
What about the implications ? no not right sorry .
I remember years ago a woman had a child in their 50s through ivf and it was huge news and then 60s and now 70s where will It stop ? .

YANBU. I can't understand how any doctor would think this was ethically right and implant embryos into an elderly woman.

Don't you have to be under 35 for the NHS. I think 40 should be the upper limit.

@berlinbabylon No it’s not 35...women are offered 3 cycles up to the age of 40 on the NHS as standard.

@ShadyLady53 that's not true, totally depends on where you live. My trust doesn't offer IVF to anyone

You can’t have ivf in your 70s in the uk. It wouldn’t get past the HFEA guidelines

POOR CHILDREN.
Will they ever get to know their parents.
Also family members will feel obliged to take them on when the inevitable happens .
SELFISH springs to mind.

@ShadyLady53 no the NICE guidelines is that you should be offered up to 3 rounds once diagnosed with infertility however it’s totally down to the CCG to decide how many rounds are offered. In many cases it’s 1 and in some cases non at all. It’s why ivf is known as a postcode lottery it really is dependent where you live.

There are clinics in Italy and Eastern Europe that will treat women in their 60s.