Women to give birth at 100 within three decades

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Women to give birth at 100 within three decades
by Graham Tibbetts
Last Updated: 8:22PM BST 17/07/2008
Women aged 100 will be able to give birth within three decades as infertility is eradicated, scientists have predicted.

They foresee a world where every female of any age - from childhood upwards - could successfully conceive.

Employing techniques still to be developed, scientists believe they could create sperm and eggs from skin cells and combine them to form embryos.

Parents would then be able to choose a so-called "designer" baby, selecting based on characteristics such as hair colour and height to intelligence and disease-free genes.


More:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2305096/Women-to-give-birth-at-100-within-three-decades.html

I think a new definition for insanity is called for here...

[sellitman]

1. Who is going to .......... a 100 yr old lady?

Please?

[notadmblnd]

9. a hundred yr old man?

[Orrex]

13. That's a pretty sick question

After all, she could be 99 and three months.

[Book Lover]

14. You think 25 year olds are

going to be lining up for you when you are an elder? Shithead.

[sellitman]

16. Maybe not

Fuck face.

[Book Lover]

19. Is that an invitation? Sorry, my dance card's full tonight

I think you are looking for your date here http://tinyurl.com/hkox

[Warpy]

20. Or here:

http://www.muttonbone.com

[beam me up scottie]

18. I doubt they're lining up for him now.

;)

[Delphinus]

2. Insanity?

That will do until another word is found. Why would anyone want to conceive a child at 100? WHY?

[LeftishBrit]

21. Imagine having to deal with teenagers when you're 115

it would be enough to drive you to an early grave!

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. Just because you can

doesn't mean you should.

[asthmaticeog]

4. Cue Patton Oswalt...

:freak:

[jwirr]

5. Oh, God, and they just declared birth control pills to be abortion! What

woman in her right mind would want to give birth at the age of 100?

[Warpy]

6. Not in this lifetime, Binky

One of the great joys of hitting fifty is being able to thumb your nose at the fertility aisle of the supermarket. You know, it's the one with the baby crap on one side and the "sanitary products" on the other.

Only a man would think we'd want to extend that time of our lives.

[nancyr]

8. God, that's the truth.

Just when I think I've about heard it all....something nuts like this shows up.

[Book Lover]

15. Spot on, friend (nm)

[asjr]

7. Oh, God forbid!

[NV Whino]

10. Oh, those Republicans. They're such jokers!

[haele]

11. The only way this would possibly work is if human life extended to

oh, 200 years on average?
And if people could remain "youthful" up through their 120's. When the body starts to sag and the nerves and bones start to get brittle, you shouldn't even be caring for babies unless you can hand them back to mom and dad after a few hours, not to even consider putting your body through the stress of pregnancy and childbirth.

Successful childbirth - which for various reasons I never participated in other than as an observer or helper, is a complex physical event. Raising children successfully is as complex and certainly almost as difficult on the mind and body due to the long term commitment.
My great-grandma lived to be 102 and went through menopause at 45/50 - after having just one child. Some of her contemporaries may have still been having children up into their late 40's (a classmate of hers had 10 living children and was pregnant 16 times after that woman had gotten married at age 22 - and she died of cervical cancer around the age of 60), but that always seemed to be a matter of genetics.
G-Grandma may helped take care of my dad and uncle when grandma became a single (divorced)working mother back in the late 1940s, but even then, she and her husband just couldn't keep up with two rambunctious boys when they were in their 50's and my great-aunt (only 2 years older than grandma, which meant that G-Grandma's mother had her oldest and youngest 20 years apart G-grandma was born in 1884 and grandma was born in 1926).

Just rambling on there in the last part. The point is, it might become possible to have a child at 100 soon enough in the future, but would any woman really want to go through the time and trouble to do so if her state of body and health is still that of a geriatric woman? Even if "100 is the new 50 or 60", I don't know of any woman who would be able to handle having and raising a kid, even with a healthy, active spouse helping.

Childbirth is, frankly, a healthy, youthful woman's activity.

Haele

[Liberal Veteran]

12. I'm still waiting for my flying car.

Which I find much more useful senior citizens starting a family.

[Orrex]

17. Three and a third babies per year for thirty years?!? Yikes!

Or did I misread the OP's subject line?