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 | | Even if Adriana lives to ripe old age, her baby will be orphaned too young and there is no father to redress the loss
I admit that (when) we say a 66 year old mother is too old but pat a 66 year old father on the back we’re being sexist, and that’s wrong. |
 | | When Adriana’s doctor Bogdan Marinescu was asked why he let a woman of 66 become pregnant, he replied: "She was in the right condition to carry a pregnancy”, adding that “medically speaking she is a success”. |
 | | While the debates around reproductive technology are complex, provocative and multiple, Iliescu’s IVF treatment over a period of nine years offered an emancipatory alliance between her body and medical technology, enabling a sense of ownership of the reproductive body and of agency as woman and mother. |
| www.chloe.uwa.edu.au /outskirts/archive/volume14/muller (3228 words) |
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