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Aleta St. James is the latest celebrity to enter the "Are you ever too old
Aleta St. James is the latest celebrity to enter the "Are you ever too old
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2024-10-17
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Aleta St. James is the latest celebrity to enter the "Are you ever too old to have a baby?" sweepstakes. St. James is a singer and self-described "healer" with lots of Hollywood clients. She is also the sister of Curtis Sliwa, the New York radio personality who founded the crime-fighting group the Guardian Angels.
Tuesday morning, three days shy of her 57th birthday, she gave birth to twins-a boy and a girl-at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The babies were delivered by Caesarean section. Born three weeks premature, they were taken to the neonatal nursery where both were re- ported to be doing well.
St. James is not married. She used an egg made available by a stranger and sperm reportedly donated by a former boyfriend to achieve the pregnancy. In response to media questions about why she had decided to have children at age 57 she responded, "It is never too late. You are never too old. It is just in your mind."
The doctors to whom she paid more than $ 25,000 for the treatments that resulted in her pregnancy apparently did not think she was too old. And her family, as well as a gaggle of reporters, deemed her upbeat answer ( in addition to her healing work, St. James is a motivational speaker) a more-than-sufficient response. Her father, who is well into his ’80s, said that he now has two big reasons to want to keep on living.
It is hard to even raise this question without seeming like a moral busybody. What right does anyone have to challenge the reproductive decisions of another person? But, that line of argument is simply wrong-headed. If decisions as important as when to have children are not open to ethical comment and discussion, then what is worthy of ethical analysis -- decisions about what color to paint the living room?
Let’s think for a minute about what it means to have twins at 57. What it means is that when your twins are about to enter’ high school, say at the age of 14, you are 71. Now I know that there are many grandparents who have successfully raised kids when the children’s own parents could not. But it is one thing for two older people to deal with a difficult situation and make the best of it. It is quite different to deliberately create a situation where a single, 71-year-old parent who has been eligible for Medicare for seven years must deal with twins entering both puberty and high school. [br] In the fifth paragraph, by saying" ff decisions as important as when to have children are not open to ethical comment and discussion, then what is worthy of ethical analysis... decisions a- bout what color to paint the living room?", the author is sug
选项
A、people like to make important decisions.
B、when to have children is not an ethical question.
C、when to have children is worthy of ethical analysis.
D、when to have children is more important than what color to paint our living room.
答案
C
解析
推理题。文章第五段主要讨论关心高龄生子问题是否是多管闲事,就此,作者明确表明了自己的立场:这个问题值得从伦理道德的角度进行分析,所以正确答案是C。
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