It turns out the biological clock has two faces. The ovaries slow down as a woman approaches menopause, but the uterus keeps working, at least that’s the view of some doctors quoted in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
A healthy woman, they claim, can have a healthy baby into her 50s or even her 60s, using donated eggs and hormone therapy. The California doctors argue that there’s no medical reason why it ought not to be done. Others say this is a case of science over common sense, that for medical and many other reasons, the cutoff for fertility treatments should be 50 years old.
The debate over having it all: hot flashes, menopause, and morning sickness.
Guests:
Dr. Richard J. Paulson, obstetrician, University of Southern California Medical School, lead author, “Pregnancy in the Sixth Decade of Life,” Journal of the American Medical Association
Judy Bershak, patient of Dr. Paulson, gave birth at 50
Dr. Kim Thornton, reproductive endocrinologist, Boston IVF.