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mother," he said. This poses all
the inevitable questions about
surrogate parenthood, such as
what happens when the donor
decides she wants to keep the
baby herself or is unhappy with
the parents who will raise the
child.
Dr. Caplan also is concerned
by the fact that older mothers
are more apt to deliver prema-
ture babies, as well as with the
moral issue of what it means to
bear a child one is not likely to
see even graduate from high
school.
"It is wrong to intentionally
bring into this world a child
when one will not be there to
parent him," Dr. Caplan said.
"And I say this not only for
women but for men, too."
The one issue that is not a
halachic concern, yet which
seems to raise the most eye-
brows among critics, is the
woman's age.
Both Mrs. Dalla Corte and
the London mother were treat-
ed at the same Rome clinic by
Dr. Severino Antinori, a gyne-
cologist who said he has helped
more than 40 women, all in
their 50s, become pregnant.
Virtually every woman over 50
has gone through menopause,
at which time the body no
longer produces eggs for fertil-
ization.
Some observers say older
mothers don't have the energy
to care for children the way
younger mothers do. Others
suggest post-menopausal preg-
nancy poses serious health con-
cerns to the mother, which is
why few American clinics offer
fertility options to women old-
er than 43.
But the matriarch Sarah
didn't become pregnant until
she was 90, Rabbi Silberberg
noted, and this did not interfere
with her ability to raise a child.
And while Halachah does not
permit a woman to put her own
life at risk during a pregnancy,
older women are not necessar-
ily poor candidates for mother-
hood, according to Dr. Lon Katz,
an obstetrician-gynecologist
with Weinberg, Nathanson,
Sudakin and Katz in Bingham
Farms.
"As long as the woman is in
good physical health, there
shouldn't be any problems," ei-
ther during the pregnancy it-
self or in labor, Dr. Katz says.
Good health means the woman
is not obese, has no cardiovas-
cular or blood pressure prob-
lems, and has no history of
diabetes.
Borrowing eggs
raises halachic
issues.
Another issue raised this
week concerns the potential for
using eggs from aborted fetus-
es to impregnate infertile wom-
en.
The first issue in this case
would be tampering with the
body of the deceased, which few
halachic scholars would
approve, Rabbi Silberberg not-
ed.
In addition, Halachah states
that an organ transplant be
performed only if the donor
gave prior approval. Such, of
course, cannot be the case of the
fetus.
Both halachically and moral-
ly, the use of eggs from aborted
fetuses is "completely unac-
ceptable," said Rabbi Chaskel
Grubner, head of the Council of
Orthodox Rabbis. ❑
Germany Expects
Surge Of Immigrants
Berlin (JTA) — Ignatz Bubis,
the head of Germany's Jew-
ish community, expects a
surge of Jewish immigration
here following the successes
of right-wing candidates in
the Russian elections.
"I expect that the wave of
immigrants from Russia will
increase," Mr. Bubis said.
He called the election
results "a cause for worry."
Russian ultranationalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky —
whose fascist and anti-
Semitic rhetoric has provok-
ed concern among Jewish
groups monitoring trends in
the former Soviet Union
—made a surprisingly
strong showing in the
parliamentary elections.
Mr. Bubis said that while
anti-Semitism has tradi-
tionally been stronger in the
Ukraine than in Russia
"something like that
spreads over."
He said he was worried
about the increasing pop-
ularity of right-wing parties,
not only in eastern Europe,
but as a worldwide phenom-
enon.
In the last several years
some 500,000 Jews have
immigrated to Israel from
the former Soviet Union,
while about 15,000 have
come to Germany.
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