الأربعاء، 15 أبريل 2015

German politicians criticise 65-year-old woman pregnant with quadruplets

Annegret Raunigk, who had IVF treatment in Ukraine after being refused in Germany, is deemed ‘a questionable case’ as she becomes a national talking point


Medical experts and politicians have strongly rounded on a 65-year-old German woman who is pregnant with quadruplets, calling her decision “irresponsible” and “inadvisable”, and warned other women against following her example.


“I consider this to be a very questionable case,” Karl Lauterbach, a leading Social Democrat, said of Annegret Raunigk’s multiple pregnancy, which is in its fifth month. “Such a pregnancy cannot be allowed to become an example for anyone to follow,” he told Spiegel.


I’m observing this development with great concern. We can’t just do everything because we’re medically able to do it


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