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> would raise the prospect of new treatments to allow older women to conceive This is a bit of ethical problem. Pregnancy at older age brings many risks to mot
by thr328982 10y ago
> would raise the prospect of new treatments to allow older women to conceive
This is a bit of ethical problem. Pregnancy at older age brings many risks to mother and child.
- danjoc 10y agoYet, women who give birth later, live longer. http://time.com/2922235/mothers-birth-pregnancy-aging/ http://time.com/2922235/mothers-birth-pregnancy-aging/
- heydenberk 10y agoFrom your article: "The natural ability to have a child at an older age likely indicates that a woman’s reproductive system is aging slowly, and therefore so is the rest of her body."
- acaciapalm 10y agoSperm from older men also has higher risk of producing kids with genetic defects[0] [0]http://genetics.thetech.org/older-dads’-kids-higher-risk-genetic-disease http://genetics.thetech.org/older-dads’-kids-higher-risk-gen...
- MollyR 10y agoInteresting, I hope they do in-depth study. I wonder how they'd deal with this issue from that article. "But what is also obvious is that it can be very difficult to untangle mom and dad’s contributions because they tend to track together in age. Older dads tend to have children with older moms." It's a pretty big confounding variable.
- nommm-nommm 10y ago... as well as benefits. There's no absolutes.