British Child Psychiatrist Defends Right To Be Pregnant At 63
Robert Paul Reyes
May 06, 2006
Medical science has literally performed miracles: Corneal transplants allow the blind to see and heart transplants extend the lives of grateful recipients.
But some of the greatest medical breakthroughs also have certain risks that should give us reason for pause and reflection.
Case in point, Patricia Rashbrook, a child psychiatrist from England, underwent fertility treatment and now at the ripe old age of 63 is two months from giving birth.
Rashbrook has two grown children from a previous marriage and recently married a man in his 60's.
The expectant mom issued this statement: ?We are very happy to have given life to an already much loved baby and our wish now is to give him the peace and security he needs.?
Yes a baby needs peace, love and security, but he also needs parents who will have the strength, energy and life expectancy to be there for him as he grows from a child to a man.
It's convenient that Rashbrook is a child psychiatrist because her child will most certainly need counseling when his little friends poke fun at him for having parents older than Methuselah.
When Rashbrook changes her baby's diapers it will be good experience for her, because in a few years she will be changing her own diapers.
The Times Online quotes a friend of Dr. Rashbrook as saying that she wanted a child "to seal her love for John". Couldn't she seal her love for her husband by giving him a new set of golf clubs?
Rashbrook's pregnancy is the epitome of selfishness, as a child psychiatrist the health and welfare of her baby she be the only thing on her mind. She should give her baby up for adoption, and adopt a kitten if she is in need of something cute and cuddly to play with.
But some of the greatest medical breakthroughs also have certain risks that should give us reason for pause and reflection.
Case in point, Patricia Rashbrook, a child psychiatrist from England, underwent fertility treatment and now at the ripe old age of 63 is two months from giving birth.
Rashbrook has two grown children from a previous marriage and recently married a man in his 60's.
The expectant mom issued this statement: ?We are very happy to have given life to an already much loved baby and our wish now is to give him the peace and security he needs.?
Yes a baby needs peace, love and security, but he also needs parents who will have the strength, energy and life expectancy to be there for him as he grows from a child to a man.
It's convenient that Rashbrook is a child psychiatrist because her child will most certainly need counseling when his little friends poke fun at him for having parents older than Methuselah.
When Rashbrook changes her baby's diapers it will be good experience for her, because in a few years she will be changing her own diapers.
The Times Online quotes a friend of Dr. Rashbrook as saying that she wanted a child "to seal her love for John". Couldn't she seal her love for her husband by giving him a new set of golf clubs?
Rashbrook's pregnancy is the epitome of selfishness, as a child psychiatrist the health and welfare of her baby she be the only thing on her mind. She should give her baby up for adoption, and adopt a kitten if she is in need of something cute and cuddly to play with.
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