Elle
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Anyone hear about this happening recently in India? This is all I could find when I did a search
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/05/30/france.mom/index.html
FREJUS, France -- A 62-year-old woman has given birth to a healthy boy in southeastern France, becoming one of the oldest new mothers in the world, the Associated Press has reported.
News about the birth has raised questions about how the mother became pregnant. Artificial insemination is illegal in France for women who are too old to conceive children naturally.
French television and newspapers have speculated that the woman -- whose identity has not been revealed -- underwent in vitro fertilization in the United States.
Health Minister Bernard Kouchner said the birth was the first of its kind in France.
Kouchner told reporters: "This poses the problem of fairly uncontrollable deviations in all our technical advances and scientific progress.
"It is not tragic but the very idea that this could become something with no limits, is obviously a problem."
The woman gave birth at the Lauriers Clinic in Frejus, in the Mediterranean Var region, on May 14. The baby weighed three kilos (6.6 pounds).
The director of the clinic, Philippe Lavernhe, told LCI television that he and his staff had simply delivered the baby in accordance with their training. "The ethical problems arise afterward. It is certain that giving birth at 62 is very uncommon," Lavernhe said.
Court officials in Draguignan, near Frejus, have indicated they might question the mother to find out how she conceived and determine how the baby will be raised, according to AP.
Guinness World Records 2001 lists two 63-year-old women who have given birth: Rosanna Della Corte of Italy in 1994 and Arceli Keh of California in 1996.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/05/30/france.mom/index.html
FREJUS, France -- A 62-year-old woman has given birth to a healthy boy in southeastern France, becoming one of the oldest new mothers in the world, the Associated Press has reported.
News about the birth has raised questions about how the mother became pregnant. Artificial insemination is illegal in France for women who are too old to conceive children naturally.
French television and newspapers have speculated that the woman -- whose identity has not been revealed -- underwent in vitro fertilization in the United States.
Health Minister Bernard Kouchner said the birth was the first of its kind in France.
Kouchner told reporters: "This poses the problem of fairly uncontrollable deviations in all our technical advances and scientific progress.
"It is not tragic but the very idea that this could become something with no limits, is obviously a problem."
The woman gave birth at the Lauriers Clinic in Frejus, in the Mediterranean Var region, on May 14. The baby weighed three kilos (6.6 pounds).
The director of the clinic, Philippe Lavernhe, told LCI television that he and his staff had simply delivered the baby in accordance with their training. "The ethical problems arise afterward. It is certain that giving birth at 62 is very uncommon," Lavernhe said.
Court officials in Draguignan, near Frejus, have indicated they might question the mother to find out how she conceived and determine how the baby will be raised, according to AP.
Guinness World Records 2001 lists two 63-year-old women who have given birth: Rosanna Della Corte of Italy in 1994 and Arceli Keh of California in 1996.
