Age Limit for Parents?
@jdholloway624 (46)
United States
March 23, 2009 5:05pm CST
I don't know if any of you feel this way, but I think when couples reach a certain age they shouldn't be having kids. Before you get mad... if they can naturally conceive, then more power to them. But what about older couples who are beyond child-bearing age who have to turn to drastic medical procedures to conceive? My step-mother tried in-vitro three times, with five eggs being fertilized each time. Only one survived; in essence, she miscarried 14 babies. I know miscarriages are natural and happen all the time, but I feel like hers were scietifically created. Yet she has the gall to preach to me about how abortion is murder. Anyone with me on this?
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@Shawtyshara (105)
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23 Mar 09
Well, Abortion is in the will of the mother and she chooses to get rid of it. So it's kind of like murder. People should be more carefull if they don't want to get pregnant.
Yeahh your step-mother was using those methods to help have a child but its the opposite of murder aint it. She is trying to give life, not kill it.
So they're both different things hehe.
Few years ago, I saw a newspaper article in my R.E classroom and this old couple around the age of 80 actully had a child!!
Dayumnn :o
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@jdholloway624 (46)
• United States
24 Mar 09
I guess I didn't verbalize the point I had come up with in my head. Silly me!
The same people who are against the advances of medicine when it comes to things like abortion and stem cell research are the first ones who use those advances to unnaturally bring a child into this world. (And usually very religious people!) Science is only good when it is useful to them; otherwise, it's up to God. I just don't get how some can be so hypocritical about it, that's all.
Sorry to get on my soapbox...
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
11 Jul 10
I am against abortion and also against using invitro and unnatural methods to conceive a child. There is always adoption and the reason that people fall for these unnatural methods of conceiving is because so many women either abort or keep their babies when they are too young to care for them. So the grandmother is left to take care of the children. It is not about being too old to have children, because if a woman happens to be over the childbearing age and suddenly God gives her the ability to conceive, well that is all right with me. It did happen to Sarah and Elizabeth in the Bible.
And yes miscarriages are natural, but there comes a time when they are more then the usual amount. With your stepmother, I think it was sort of unnatural since they were probably not from her eggs. Oh what happened to the one who survived?
As for other methods such as stem cell research. I am all for adult stem cell research, but not for embryo stem cell research as the former has been successful.
