79:(born 31 May 1938) is a Romanian retired university teacher, philologist and author of children's novels. She received international media attention in 2005, when she gave birth to daughter Eliza at age 66, making her the oldest birth mother in the world until this record was broken in 2006 by
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news website article was updated after a day, changing her age from 67 to 66. Gheorghe
Borcean, head of the Romanian medical profession's ethics committee, commented: "A case of such prominence should require academic debates and not just one single television report."
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news, causing debate as to whether fertility treatment is ethical after a certain age. The release of details about the pregnancy and birth was criticised when different information was reported by different news companies. One primary source was a
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interview with
Iliescu conducted a month before the birth. The age of Iliescu was reported as 67 by some sources and the exact details of the second, and in some reports third, fetus differed greatly. For example, a
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Romanian laws governing the process are currently under review and, to bring them in line with typical
European legislation, may prevent any form of such treatment after the age of 50.
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soon after the 34th week, the death of one of the twins led to the decision to operate earlier than planned. The surviving baby was expected to remain in hospital for six weeks.
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failed to progress and died. The remaining two fetuses, both girls, weighed just 1.45 kilograms (3.19 pounds) and 0.69 kilograms (1.54 pounds) after 33 weeks of
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Television, newspaper polls and discussions around the world asked the public what their opinion of the ethical decision was.
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from two anonymous donors) in 2004, becoming pregnant with
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Revistele literare de la sfîrsitul secolului al XlX-lea
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Realismul in literatura romana in secolul al XIX- lea
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