The world's oldest mother has died less than three years after giving birth to twins reigniting the ethical debate about allowing older women to receive fertility treatment.
69-year-old Maria Carmen del Bousada died of cancer, leaving her twin boys orphaned. Critics, including her own family, called the pensioner, who went through the menopause 18 years before her treatment, 'selfish and irresponsible'.
In the UK there is no maximum age limit on when fertility treatment can be offered, but the NHS will not fund IVF for women over 40.
What do you think? Was she selfish to have children so late in life? Or should women be free to choose at what age they become mothers?
Should there be laws in place to prevent women over a certain age undergoing fertility treatment?
Is it right that medical advances are giving us the freedom to choose when we start a family or is it interfering with what nature intended?
