Jul 15th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
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A Spanish woman who became the world's oldest mother at the age of 66 has died of cancer just two-and-a-half years after giving birth to twins, raising fresh questions about the ethics of fertility treatment for women past natural childbearing age.
Maria del Carmen Bousada, a single mother and retired sales assistant from Cádiz, southern Spain, leaves behind her orphan sons, Pau and Christian. It was unclear who would look after them.
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Jul 16th, 2009 - Dispatch
MADRID -- A Spanish woman who deceived a U.S. fertility clinic about her age to become theoldest woman to give birth has died at 69, leaving behind 2-year-old twins, newspapers reportedyesterday.
Mother dies at 69; twins, 2, are orphans
Jul 16th, 2009 - News & Observer
MADRID -- She devoted years to caring for her mother, who died at 101. Then Maria del Carmen Bousada embarked on a quest to become a mother herself. She lied to a California fertility clinic to skirt its age limit...
World's oldest new mom dies, leaves 2 toddlers
Jul 15th, 2009 - MSNBC
MADRID - A Spanish woman believed to have become the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth at 66 has died at 69, leaving behind twin toddlers, newspapers reported Wednesday. Maria del Carmen Bousada...
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