A 72-year-old Indian woman has reportedly given birth to a healthy child.
The Guardian reported that Daljinder Kaur, the woman, and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder Singh Gill, had their son Arman last month.
She received IVF treatment, and it is the couple’s first successful pregnancy in 46 years of marriage. Kaur received donor eggs and two years of treatment before giving birth in the northern state of Haryana.
“We condemn this totally. With science, you can make a 90-year-old person pregnant, what’s the big deal? The question is not about technicalities, it’s about ethics. Our responsibility to the patient. This man is an upstart, he doesn’t represent us. He needs to be banned.” “Not a good idea. It’s cowboy medicine,” added Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, who runs a Mumbai-based fertility clinic.
“Doctors are just out to show how much they can push the envelope. This gives IVF doctors a bad name. People think we’re irresponsible, doing stupid stuff.”
Bishnoi defended his patients’ rights. “Reproduction is a fundamental right. The government cannot prevent that,” he stressed.
“They want to prevent women over 50, but on what basis can they do this to their own people? They are not killing anyone, they are giving birth,” he said.
