I was *only* 37 when James was born, but I certainly didn't bounce back afterward as easily as in my 20's.
I think there's something very twisted when a country such as Romania, which still has a very high rate of abortions, and has all those children in dreadful orphanages, also has doctors doing IVF on post-menopausal single women. Couldn't she have dealt with her guilt by supporting a crisis-pregnancy ministry?
I agree that her efforts would have been better spent either in being an advocate for crisis pregnancy or as a foster mother.
To bring a child into the world at such an advanced age and through artificial means is wrong on so many levels.
As you know, many of the former Soviet States have treated abortion as birth control for nearly 50 years. I had Russian friends in grad school who had multiple abortions and only through rediscovering a faith in God were able to comprehend what they had done. I don't fault them. They were not walking in the light. I prayed with them when they realized that it was a child they had aborted, not a nuisance.