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02 August 2015 02 Aug 2015

Volume 23 | Issue 8

ISSN (Print): 0969-4900

ISSN (Online): 2052-4307

The ethics surrounding older mothers

In May 2015 a 65-year-old German single mother of 13, Annegret Raunigk, gave birth to quads One might have thought that this qualified Ms Raunigk as the world's oldest mother, but a BBC News report (2015) not only explained that Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara had borne twins in 2006 at the age of 66 years, it also noted: ‘some reports dispute this, saying the actual record holder is Omkari Panwar, who is believed to have been 70 when she gave birth to twins in India in 2008’

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