Hi, need to submit a 1500 words paper on the topic Dr. Patricia Rashbrook. This essay will examine the medical, social, and ethical arguments concerning Dr. Rashbrook’s motherhood at this age. Bakewel

Hi, need to submit a 1500 words paper on the topic Dr. Patricia Rashbrook. This essay will examine the medical, social, and ethical arguments concerning Dr. Rashbrook’s motherhood at this age. Bakewell of The Independent (May 05, 2006), reports that menopause was supposed to be the end of motherhood but that theory does not hold good anymore. Dr. Severino Antinori, the well known Italian doctor, has changed the orthodox concepts of parenting. Women over 50 turn to him when they are desperate for a child. There are several instances when post-menopausal births have taken place for instance that of John the Baptist, cites Bakewell. Fertility is the result of globalized information and scientific developments, which sees parents hunting across the world to fulfill their dreams. Dr. Antonori has capitalized on this trend. He works for the post-menopausal women and attempts at human cloning. The Italian press calls him the ‘father of the impossible children’ (Boseley, The Guardian, May 05, 2006). Law in Italy has been tightened after Dr. Antinori implanted a donated and fertilized egg in 62-year old Italian woman in the 1990s reports Boseley. Ethical issues have been raised but life expectancy, in general, has increased and women live longer than men do. At the same time birth rate has fallen. NHS does not permit IVF treatment over 50 but in view of the decline in birth rate, NHS may be forced to give this issue another thought. In practice, doctors in the UK generally do not treat a woman over 45 as she is incapable of producing her own eggs after that. Evans (The Times, May 04, 2006) explains that doctors take a healthy egg from a young woman that is placed in a glass dish with about 18000 sperm for about 18 hours. After fertilization, the egg is implanted in the woman with a catheter and pregnancy continues in the normal way. There are no rules preventing fertility clinics in the UK treating a couple in their 60s but doctors refuse on grounds of the risks to the health of the mother and concerns for child welfare, says Boseley, Health Editor, The Guardian.