IVF is a wonderful treatment for otherwise infertile couples. Personally I know several couples that have benefitted from this modern medical miracle. However, like many modern miracles, they can be mis-used. And clearly a case of a 64 year old woman giving birth is a massive abuse of this technology. It is unfortunate that some cannot fall pregnant even via IVF, or that it can take a substantial amount of time and money. However there comes a point where a woman is simply too old for child bearing. That is what menopause is about: it is the female body's way of ending the reproductive cycle.

While all medicine is about defying nature, there are points where it turns into cheating and becomes unethical and indefensible. This is such a time. The medical team behind this deserve censure and worse for going through with this procedure. I do not know what ethics committees or laws apply here but God damn I hope they come like a tonne of bricks on all of those involved.

Most of all I pity this poor baby: he or she didn't ask for any of this.