Tuesday, April 12

The case I'm working on:

Emily is a 59 year-old woman who plans to retire at age 60 from her job as a financial executive. She has been with her male partner (age 64) for 10 years, and he plans to retire as well within the next year. Both Emily and her partner are in good health and look forward to carving out a new life in retirement; in fact, they have decided that this would be a good time for them to raise a child, and have come to an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinic to arrange for her to become pregnant. They are aware that it is now possible for postmenopausal women to bear children by employing egg donation, IVF, and embryo transplantation to the womb of the postmenopausal women, who would receive hormonal treatments. Emily's partner would provide the sperm for IVF, so he would be the biological father of the child.

I have to side with the clinic in refusing her request for IVF using all kinds of different theories. In my point of view, I don't think she's wrong in wanting to have children of her own. but God did stop women's capabilities of producing at certain age for a reason. However if we were to give people who are infertile a chance for IVF , who are we to refuse older couples. Is age really a barrier??

1 comment:

Peoplez said...

hmmm interesting discussion topic here. I agree with your last point.