Health Care & Hospital Law,
Family
Jul. 30, 2009
Age Old Question
The death of the world's oldest woman to give birth prompts more uncertainty about the math surrounding infertility treatment, writes Judith Daar.
Judith Daar
Dean-Elect, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University
The death of Guinness World Record holder Maria del Carmen Bousada at age 69 refocuses attention on the very feat that earned her distinction. In December 2006, the Spanish native gave birth to twin boys, conceived at a Los Angeles fertility clinic using in vitro fertilization with (much younger) donor eggs. The unmarried 66-year-old became the world's oldest woman to give birth, though that record has since been surpassed by a 70-something matriarch in India. Motherhood for septuagenari...
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