<p>I hope she and her husband are not disappointed to have a daughter in that country that highly values males. If they are disappointed, she could have to get pregnant again.</p>
<p>"NEW DELHI An Indian woman, who got married 50 years ago, has become a mother for the very first time at the ripe old age of 70-years-old, Agence-France Presse reported Monday.</p>
<p>Rajo Devi gave birth to a baby girl nearly two weeks ago after undergoing in vitro fertilization, the AFP reported her doctor, Anurag Bishnoi, as saying Monday."
[FOXNews.com</a> - Indian Woman, 70, Gives Birth to Her First Child - Incredible Health](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,463353,00.html]FOXNews.com”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,463353,00.html)</p>
<p>Why do you think “that” country highly values males? Are you simply succumbing to a stereotype in saying that?</p>
<p>"NEW DELHI: As many as 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the last 20 years as families try to secure a male heir, according to a study published Monday in The Lancet, the British medical journal.</p>
<p>In the two decades since ultrasound equipment, which allows prenatal determination of sex, became widely available, the number of girls born in India has declined steeply, despite a law banning doctors from disclosing the sex of a fetus to parents.</p>
<p>Although the routine aborting of female fetuses has been well documented, the study puts new light on the scale of the practice…</p>
<p>The preference for sons has distorted the gender ratio throughout India."
[India's</a> lost daughters: Abortion toll in millions - International Herald Tribune](<a href=“http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/09/news/india.php]India’s”>http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/09/news/india.php)</p>
<p>"NEW DELHI --Indian women continue to face pressure to produce a male child, according to a government survey released Wednesday.</p>
<p>Of female respondents who identified themselves as married with two living children, nearly 90 percent say they don’t want more children if they have at least one son, but that number falls to about 62 percent if the women have two girls, according to the National Family Health Survey.</p>
<p>In some states, such as underdeveloped Bihar, 80 percent of women with two daughters and no sons said they wanted to have another child, the survey said.</p>
<p>Women face great social pressure to produce a male child in this nation where the cultural preference for boys is rooted in the custom of dowry, with families often going into debt to provide gifts for the groom’s family…"
[India</a> survey says male children preferred - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/women/articles/2007/02/21/india_survey_says_male_children_preferred/]India”>http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/women/articles/2007/02/21/india_survey_says_male_children_preferred/)</p>
<p>Clearly, she used donor eggs. As one who gave birth to an IVF baby at almost 43, and a “surprise” naturally conceived baby at almost 49, I will be judgmental and say that this woman and her husband are insane, and the doctor who performed the procedures on her and the egg donor is unethical.</p>
<p>She could swap baby stories with this woman:
"She was utterly determined to have a son. </p>
<p>The fact that to do so would make 70-year-old Omkari Panwar the world’s oldest mother didn’t even cross her mind. </p>
<p>Her resolve was matched by her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77. </p>
<p>To pay for the IVF treatment vital to producing a male heir to the family’s smallholdings, the retired farmer sold his buffalos, mortgaged his land, spent his life savings and took out a credit card loan…"
[World’s</a> oldest mother gives birth to twins at 70 | Mail Online](<a href=“World's oldest mother gives birth to twins at 70 | Daily Mail Online”>World's oldest mother gives birth to twins at 70 | Daily Mail Online)</p>
<p>“To pay for the IVF treatment vital to producing a male heir to the family’s smallholdings, the retired farmer sold his buffalos, mortgaged his land, spent his life savings and took out a credit card loan…”</p>
<p>What would be left of the small holdings he would leave to a male heir??</p>
<p>Gives one a new appreciation for the Biblical story of Abraham and his wife conceiving in their old age.</p>