ROMANIA: BUCHAREST PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIXTY SIX YEAR OLD ADRIANA LLIESCU THE WORLD'S OLDEST WOMAN TO GIVE BIRTH.

Record ID: 647613

  • Title: ROMANIA: BUCHAREST PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIXTY SIX YEAR OLD ADRIANA LLIESCU THE WORLD'S OLDEST WOMAN TO GIVE BIRTH.
  • Date: 18th January 2005
  • Summary: (BN13) BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (JANUARY 18, 2005)(REUTERS TV - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS: ADRIANA ILIESCU, 66 YEAR OLD MOTHER ARRIVING AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE. (2 SHOTS) 0.29 2. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Romanian) ADRIANA ILIESCU, 66 YEAR OLD MOTHER SAYING: "I'M A NORMAL WOMAN, LIKE ANY WOMAN WHO HAS A CHILD. I WANTED THIS, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG, AND TODAY IS A VERY NICE DAY BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THE CHILD" 0.45 3. SCU: CUTAWAY CAMERAMEN. 0.50 4. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Romanian) ADRIANA ILIESCU, SAYING: I MYSELF DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND ALL MY MOTIVATIONS. BUT MAYBE THIS WAS MY MISSION, TO SHOW THAT WOMEN CAN, AND MUST HAVE CHILDREN" 1.17 5. WS: CUTAWAY MEDIA. 1.21 6. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Romanian) ADRIANA ILIESCU, SAYING: "NOBODY CAN FORESEE THE FUTURE, AND ALL THE WORRIES FOR THE DAYS TO COME DON'T MAKE SENSE" 1.37 7. HAS: ADRIANA ILIESCU LEAVING THE PRESS CONFERENCE GETS INTO WHEELCHAIR. 2.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 2005 12:00
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  • Location: BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
  • Country: Romania
  • Reuters ID: LVA8EGD48CU4BP6CL3QTJ2601PA2
  • Story Text: Sixty-six year old Romanian woman defends her
    decision to have a baby.



    A 66 year-old Romanian woman who reportedly became
    the world's oldest woman on Tuesday (January 18) defended
    her decision to give birth to a little girl against
    mounting criticism, saying she was a mother like any other.

    Adriana Iliescu, an university professor and author of
    children books, gave birth on Sunday (January 16) to a baby
    girl after doctors used in vitro- fertilisation and sperm
    and eggs from younger people, an act slammed by the
    Romanian Orthodox Church as selfish and which stirred
    debate in the local press.

    The Health Ministry said in a statement it did not
    encourage such interventions on persons who are above the
    fertility age.

    Iliescu had been pregnant with twin girls but one of
    them did not survive and doctors decided to perform a
    caesarean section in the 33rd week of pregnancy to save the
    other, who weighs 1.4 kg.

    Doctors said the little girl, named Eliza-Maria, should
    stay in hospital about six weeks until she weighs 2 kg.





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