To Do List: Take Out Trash. Make A 67 Year-Old Woman Pregnant. Get Medical License Revoked by Romanian Ethicists.

The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University

To Do List: Take Out Trash. Make A 67 Year-Old Woman Pregnant. Get Medical License Revoked by Romanian Ethicists.

Yes, there is a reward for making a 67 year-old (in this case, Adriana Iliescu of Bucharest) pregnant. You get a new job! Turns out the Romanian bioethics committee has teeth, and isn't especially lenient. Who knew?

Mircea Cinteza, Romanian health minister, said although the birth was a medical success the moral grounds for allowing Ms Iliescu to proceed with IVF were questionable. "The doctors achieved a medical first, respecting the laws of Romania. But they took on a (questionable) moral stance. She took a biological risk that is greater than in other cases, because of her advanced age, and risked the death of the child at birth.

I'm thinking that making bad press for ~~really scary former Party members~~ Romanian health officials might be a bad strategy for fertility docs with career ambitions.

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