The Pill, Ivf, Caesarean Births . . . Why Natural Female Fertility Is History Vicky Allan On the Creeping Medicalisation of Childbirth
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OVER the past month, these have been the dispatches from the shipping news of female fertility: abortions are up in Scotland. Across the UK, the number of caesarean births has not fallen, as was hoped, but remained steady at 23per cent.
Through fertility treatment, a 63-year-old woman is pregnant for the fourth time. Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding is going to have a baby at 48.See the full content of this document
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The Pill, Ivf, Caesarean Births . . . Why Natural Female Fertility Is History Vicky Allan On the Creeping Medicalisation of Childbirth
Every week it seems there is some fresh story of unnatural pregnancy, some new set of worrying statistics, some symptom of our confused attitudes towards the young-ripe or old-barren womb. Each time there is a new case of over-50s receiving IVF treatment it is like a...
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