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In her best selling novel, State of Wonder, author Ann Patchett draws us into the science-fiction world of an indigenous people in Manaus, Brazil known as the Lakashi tribe. Deep in the rainforest tribal women nibble bark from the martin tree -- a veritable reproductive fountain of youth that offsets the normal conditions of menopause and enables women to bear children into old age. The character Dr. Annick Swenson, a senior pharmaceutical company scientist living among the native people, is so intent on exploring the wonders of the trees' powers that she becomes pregnant at the age of 70. Midway through the pregnancy, though, she experiences life-threatening medical complications, and the fetus dies.
Recently the ethics committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) issued a statement to its member clinics suggesting that healthy, postmenopausal women between the ages of 50 and 54 should no longer be discouraged from pursuing pregnancy via donor eggs or embryos. Their statement read in part: "The reported success of oocyte donation to women in their 50s and early 60s suggests that pregnancy...
Recently the ethics committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) issued a statement to its member clinics suggesting that healthy, postmenopausal women between the ages of 50 and 54 should no longer be discouraged from pursuing pregnancy via donor eggs or embryos. Their statement read in part: "The reported success of oocyte donation to women in their 50s and early 60s suggests that pregnancy...