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This is an excerpt from the article. I hope that it is not a duplicate. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4199839.stm
“I got married when I was only 20 and still a student,” she was quoted as saying from her bed at the Panait Sarbu Hospital in Bucharest.
"My husband was also still a student at the atomic physics university back then, and the marriage didn’t last long. We divorced four years later.
"In that time I had two pregnancy terminations - it was the normal thing back then and the accepted form of contraception. If there is anything I regret then it is those terminations, not having a baby now.
“Religion was not a big part of many people’s lives and I had never had any religious education, I believed the party line that a foetus is only considered a life when it is older than three months.”
’Gift from God’
Mrs Iliescu said she “discovered religion” after her marriage and is now Romanian Orthodox. She believes that, after decades of hoping for a child, her daughter’s arrival had divine sanction, the newspaper reported.
“During this time I never gave up my faith in God and in the power of trying to realise one’s dreams,” she said.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40729000/jpg/_40729063_1babyap203c.jpg Baby Eliza Maria was born prematurely by Caesarean section
She spoke of her immense joy when her baby was born, five weeks early, after undergoing nine years of fertility treatment.
“It was the happiest [moment] in my life. She grabbed my finger with her tiny hand and held it - it was a gift from God,” she told the newspaper.
Mrs Iliescu, a retired university professor and author of children’s books, says she is optimistic about her future as a mother and claims her family has a history of longevity.
Dr Bogdan Marinescu, who carried out the fertility treatment, justified the procedure by saying she was in an appropriate condition to give birth.
Mrs Iliescu’s case has led to calls by Romanian officials for a public debate on the medical and ethical consequences of fertility treatments. How do you feel about this situation? Is this fair to the child? Is it a morally correct thing for this woman to do? It almost seems as if she is making up for the babies she aborted.
“I got married when I was only 20 and still a student,” she was quoted as saying from her bed at the Panait Sarbu Hospital in Bucharest.
"My husband was also still a student at the atomic physics university back then, and the marriage didn’t last long. We divorced four years later.
"In that time I had two pregnancy terminations - it was the normal thing back then and the accepted form of contraception. If there is anything I regret then it is those terminations, not having a baby now.
“Religion was not a big part of many people’s lives and I had never had any religious education, I believed the party line that a foetus is only considered a life when it is older than three months.”
’Gift from God’
Mrs Iliescu said she “discovered religion” after her marriage and is now Romanian Orthodox. She believes that, after decades of hoping for a child, her daughter’s arrival had divine sanction, the newspaper reported.
“During this time I never gave up my faith in God and in the power of trying to realise one’s dreams,” she said.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40729000/jpg/_40729063_1babyap203c.jpg Baby Eliza Maria was born prematurely by Caesarean section
She spoke of her immense joy when her baby was born, five weeks early, after undergoing nine years of fertility treatment.
“It was the happiest [moment] in my life. She grabbed my finger with her tiny hand and held it - it was a gift from God,” she told the newspaper.
Mrs Iliescu, a retired university professor and author of children’s books, says she is optimistic about her future as a mother and claims her family has a history of longevity.
Dr Bogdan Marinescu, who carried out the fertility treatment, justified the procedure by saying she was in an appropriate condition to give birth.
Mrs Iliescu’s case has led to calls by Romanian officials for a public debate on the medical and ethical consequences of fertility treatments. How do you feel about this situation? Is this fair to the child? Is it a morally correct thing for this woman to do? It almost seems as if she is making up for the babies she aborted.