Women usually cannot naturally conceive past age 45. But MaryBeth Lewis wasn’t happy when her children grew up. At age 49, she decided she wanted more kids, and so she gave birth to twins through IVF. Doctors said it was a miracle she survived the birth, as she was put on a ventilator and given 21 units of blood.
The company that went along with this madness, endangering Lewis’s life and the lives of the children, is CNY Fertility. It is quite proud of the fact that it has no inhibitions against impregnating anyone who walks through its doors. “We believe everyone has the reproductive right to the fertility care they need. While many clinics restrict treatment options due to age, BMI, and FSH/AMH levels, we accept everyone,” it explains on its website.
In an essay this month from New York Times Magazine, David Gauvey Herbert related the totality of Lewis’s sordid tale. Lewis was not satisfied with her near-death experience of giving birth to twins three weeks shy of her 50th birthday. Three years later, she gave birth to another girl. But she wasn’t done. At age 55, she gave birth to twin boys. And yet, she wanted more children. At age 59, she gave birth to another set of twins. Still, she wasn’t done. At age 62, she gave birth to her 13th child.
But still, she wanted more children. And in America, she could buy them…
The woman is clearly disturbed. But still, she wanted more children. And in America, she could buy them for the small price of $160,000 by using the embryos she still had stored at a CNY Fertility clinic and paying a “surrogate” to give birth to the children, who are not related to Lewis. When Lewis was 66 years old, the set of twins was born to the “surrogate.” (RELATED: Designer Babies and a Brave New Biopolitics)
Lewis went on to find herself in a host of legal trouble for the birth of the twins because she had forged her husband’s signature and impersonated him in a court hearing in order to impregnate the “surrogate” with them. The twins have been in foster care for the past two years, during which time the nearly 70-year-old Lewis has been engaged in a custody battle to become their legal parent. And now, according to the New York Times, it appears she is on the cusp of winning legal custody, even though it would mean separating the children from the couple in their 30s who have raised them since birth.
This, of course, is the reality of IVF. Anyone can purchase a child. That was made clear earlier this year when a convicted sex offender who has committed sex crimes against children paid a “surrogate” to give birth to a child for him. (RELATED: Pedophiles Are Buying Children. Does Surrogacy Deserve More Scrutiny?)
It would seem obvious that no 67-year-old should be able to purchase a child (let alone that anyone should be able to buy a child). Alas, the IVF and surrogacy industries are in the business of catering to exactly what adults want, all for the sake of money. Whether the children are going to live with a good family (that is often unrelated to them) or whether the children’s “parents” will even live to see them turn 18 is of no concern to them. (RELATED: Eugenics: The Dark Side of IVF)
Unfortunately, MaryBeth Lewis’s case is not an isolated incident. In 2023, 1,200 American women in their 50s gave birth to a baby. Statistics aren’t published beyond the 50-54 age bracket.
That is extremely dangerous to the mother and the baby. Women who use IVF later in life with “donated” eggs face a greater risk of “pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, preterm birth, low birth weight, twin pregnancy, and prolonged labor requiring cesarean section.” Maternal death, early neonatal death, placental adherence with severe hemorrhage, and severe hypertensive morbidities are also linked to higher maternal age in women who give birth to children created with “donated” eggs (aka to children who are not their own). Hence, it makes sense that doctors said Lewis very nearly died when she gave birth to twins at age 49.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth is just one example of someone who has taken on this risk. At age 50, she gave birth to a girl, Maile Pearl. Likewise, photographer Annie Leibovitz gave birth at age 52. Martin Scorsese’s wife, Helen Morris, gave birth at 52. And Singer Janet Jackson gave birth at age 50.
If MaryBeth Lewis gets custody of the two children who are not related to her, she plans to make them take on new names of her choosing, despite the fact that they already answer to their current names. That is just a small example of how the whole IVF-surrogacy complex is about making adults satisfied, without regard for the well-being of children.
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