Bad Idea Gets Worse

A Spanish woman who became the world's oldest mother at the age of 66 has died of cancer just two-and-a-half years after giving birth to twins, raising fresh questions about the ethics of fertility treatment for women past natural childbearing age.

Maria del Carmen Bousada, a single mother and retired sales assistant from Cádiz, southern Spain, leaves behind her orphan sons, Pau and Christian. It was unclear who would look after them.

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What was really unclear is why the IVF clinic ever agreed to do the procedure in the first place. The woman was old enough to be a grandmother and perhaps a great grandmother when she had the twins.