Should there be an age limit for women and having babies?

I think its one's own choice. If a woman in menopause can indeed deliver a healthy baby and parent the child, then I don't fine anything wrong in it. However, we should think of a minimum age for bearing children. Teenage girls can be advised against it as they might not have the mental and emotional stability required for a parent, even though they can deliver healthy babies...

As for women dying when their children are young....news bulletin....You can die walking across the street tomorrow and only be 33. When its your time, its your time and it doesnt matter if your children are grown or not. We, as a government, do not need to pass any more legislation on other peoples bodies. Some have said older women are less able to take care of the child. I call bull. An older woman often has more money and more patience than a younger mother. Most older people do not irresponsibly bring a child into the world. There are many instances of younger women having babies with health issues...and such things as autism, which the cause of is still unknown, can happy to a child born of a mother of any age.

I always thought that nature has placed an age limit on fertility although some young women are finding it hard to have children. I am not one for legislation and I would never advocate something of this sort. One can just use one's judgment in dealing with this issue on a case to case basis.

In the Bible Abraham's wife Sarah conceived when she was 90 years old. I wonder why God did not limit child bearing when some humans commented that there should be a limit? Nature has already limited childbearing when a woman menopause. Sarah was long past menopause when she became pregnant. Since God allowed a woman long past menopause to have a child, do humans have the right to limit child bearing? I agree there should be a limit to artificial methods since God is not involved but not to those who can physically and financially support a child.

We are born independent and to dictate what age women can bear babies is not right. I think she is responsible for her own self to know if its right for her or not. At that phase of her life, I think she is good and capable enough of doing the correct thinking, and what possible consequences she'll be going to face in due time. We can't deny the fact that early pregnancies takes a lot of risk specially in raising the child. At an early age, lots of possible things could happen, one could be she'll got pregnant one after the other, and the gap between babies is too close, that makes it even harder for her to take care two babies at a time. Also babies don't have that strong immune systems and that makes them very prone to sickness. It only a matter of initiative for women to tell for herself she's ready to have children or not.

our neighbor gave birth to a healthy baby boy when she was 45 years old. but then there was the risk that she could have given birth to a baby with Down's syndrome. as the woman gets older, the risk gets higher in pregnancy. if by natural means, a child is conceived by a woman well above her 40s then i think she should take an extreme care of herself and the unborn child. i think older women who are already in menopause cannot conceive anymore or does science have the capability for this already? if there is, please, i think there should be an age limit because an old woman cannot take care of an infant the same way a healthy younger woman could.

Women should stop having children after 45 because the DNA is weaker after that age. Women who have children when they are older take a big risk of having unhealthy children. To me, 25 to 40 is the best age range for a woman to have children because the risk are not so great, but after that 40 mark, anything is possible. Your body at age 40, is not what it was at age 25 or age 30. I know that there are risk in any pregnancy, but women who are older do have higher risk when it comes to giving birth.

In my opinion, I think there should be an age limit indeed. It involves two lives, the life of the mother and the life of the unborn baby. Unless that person did not have any children at all and is willing to take all kinds of risks including the life the unborn child. She should have all the strength, health, and not mention money to make this possible.

I don't think that there should be an age limit to this. I think women who are already in their 60s have enough common sense to know that a pregnancy won't be easy at that point in time. Even the really crazy women would know this. It's really common sense. I think women who are selfish enough to want to risk having a child at a more mature stage of life will be good mothers on the account that they were desperate enough to take the risk in the first place.

when it comes to older women i do not believe there should be a limit unless they have health problems. the only ones i wish they could put a limit on are teenagers but i know that is impossible

I may be in the minority here, but I don't think the government should have a say in who should be allowed to have children and at what stage of life this should be allowed. When it comes down to it, I think a 45 year old, and even a 50 year old will be a much better parent than most 16 year olds who have no financial means to support a child. There are 20 somethings that have children that aren't smart enough to take care of a dog, but are having children. Many people put off having children until they are financially able. It does bring risks, but there are no guarantees at any age that any of us will have normal children. I think the only people's opinions that really matter are the people who are considering having the children.

In my opinion, it's a yes! Women should have an age limit when it comes to having children. Based on what i've been reading ... women tend to have complications due to age when giving birth. As we get older there are tendencies that our bodies are not that competent already in bearing children, especially when we tend to abuse our bodies - unhealthy eating habits and living an unhealthy lifestyle. And yes, there are cases that others gave birth at the age of 45 years old or older. Their bodies are still very well and physically fit to give birth. And of course, if God wants you to have a child at that age, nothing is impossible!

It's not about putting an age limit on women to have babies, it's about ensuring the safety of both the mother and the baby. We must remember that it is not only the woman's right to bear a child at any age that should be put into consideration. Studies show that women who give birth after the age of 35 is at great risk and also puts health risks on the child she's bearing. While there may be those who underwent successful preganancies after the age of 35, we must not forget the percentage of those whose lives were risked because of the mother's age and her capacity to bear a child. Nowadays, more and more women are successful in their line of work that is why they are putting off their plans to have a family. Thus there is an increasing number of women who marry after their 20s. We cannot blame them if they want to have children after the age of 35. But it would help if they know the risks so that they can take steps to avoid these if possible. Motherhood starts when the child's heart inside her womb starts beating. So women, especially pregnant ones should treat their body and health well.

I think there's no limit for a woman to have a child because if God's plan will happen if she will have a baby at a very later part of her life..

Well, women are born to hopefully be fertile and be able to procreate, some are very unlucky in that for whatever reason they cannot have babies, but if the doctors can help them then they may be able to have children through artificial means but it can take a long time in some cases. To me, that is great that they can be helped to have children. For the rest of us that are fertile and able to have children naturally we are given a certain amount of time to be able to do that. Then we go through the menopause and that is it, we have reached our retirement age on having children. Nature does this, for whatever reason, nature decides that we can only have children naturally for a certain amount of years, so by having children after this time then it goes against nature so really it is unbalancing nature. I do think that there should be an age limit, I know that it is easy for me to say because I have had four and I have never known what it is like not to be able to have children, but I just think that women having kids in their late 50s plus is just too late.

This is a hard one for me to answer. I don't think as a mother that I would want to even try the risk of having a baby that I could be putting in danger. But I am not sure of weather you should be able to stop her either. I mean w omen have the right to abort their babies. If that is not harming a baby I don't know what is . So there again I am at a loss for answer to this one.

There should be a booklet given to women past the age of say 25, with statistics in it about disbilities or diseases in babies born to women of different ages. From there, it is up to the woman whether she wants to take the chance or not. You can't just say that it's illegal for a woman past a certain age to get pregnant, as then she would try to hide her pregnancy from people, including medical people, which would put both her and the baby in an even more vunerable position!

I'm not sure what age would be perfect for women to give birth to babies, but I would say NO to specific age limit for women to give birth to babies, and this is what I think:If the age limit is set for women to give birth to babies, that means it's considered as a state or national law. Most of the people probably have the feeling that laws simply don't work; I feel the same way, and many people in the nation are already disobeying the laws. Not that people are disobeying every single one of the law that the congress have passed, but this is one law that would take away some of the woman's rights, and the most of the women would probably disobey it if this was passed as a bill to become a law. Most of the people around me say that it benefits more to have the baby at a younger age, maybe around the early to mid twenties. I fail to completely understand why, but maybe there is one con to it, which is that it makes the pregnant women to become more matured adult at an earlier age, and maybe at a faster rate. There are some pregnant teenagers out there, but that just forces them to become more responsible adults (but then again most of the teenagers don't become matured quick enough). I think that most parents are not too fond of the teenagers or other younger women to become pregnant, but it's their preference. Bottom line is that I think there should be no age limit to women's pregnancies, and it's usually not a great idea for the government to be involved in each individual's issues. Usually, I think that the government doesn't do things right, and these days, the congress and the president who runs the government doesn't give a rat's @$$ about the civilians and military other than themselves, so they will probably pass the laws that will mostly benefit the government itself instead of the civilians living in the country and the military serving the nation. But if the government DOES pass the law to declare the specific age limit to women's pregnancies, then oh well, can't do a thing about it, can we?

I think there should be an age limit for women who are giving birth because of the physical and emotional stress that comes your giving birth to a baby,Also her body must be mature enough to give birth or else there might me implications while she is giving birth as well as she should be responsible enough for her baby that only age and experience can give.Hope you liked my response and have a nice day.

Here's my say... My mother had me when she was 45 years old, my father was older. My conception was through natural means, and NO they were not trying to have a child. Yeah, one of those accidents...Like "how the hell"... you get my point. All of my brothers and sisters , nieces and nephews are older than me. That being said, I still don't think people of a certain age should be able to go through fertility treatments. If natural, then ok. Otherwise, I don't think it should be allowed to happen. We have 70, and 60 year olds having children... unless the child has older siblings, the child will have to take care of the parents at a young age. Oh yeah, I had and have a perfectly normal life.