Why does it upset everyone so much?

I have read heated debates on many boards on the "right" for women to have babies late in life, even out-right hatred against an older woman trying to get pregnant - and I wonder why it upsets everyone so much?

Is it YOUR money being spent? Will YOU have to raise the child? Will YOU have less of a chance to have a child as a result? Will YOUR medical costs increase as a result?

If your compassion for the resulting child leaves you worried that the parent will die - do you spend time worrying about the children of the enlisted? Police, fire, parametics? How exactly will your world change if an older woman has a child beyond an age YOU consider reasonable?

Or is it just "nasty" for an older woman to get pregnant, or OMG - has sex? Does it just go against all that is "right & decent" for an older woman to carry a child? Will society truly "pay the price" when all these 60 year old "baby-obsessed women start lining up at the drs office, demanding that society owes them a baby?" LOL

Sometimes I envision a world where no-one is allowed to have a baby without gov't approval. Where women are told that even at 25, it is impossible to get pregnant without medical help, and so all women are required to donate their eggs at puberty, to build up the necessary supply. Where natural conception no longer happens, and all babies are conceived in the drs office, with genetically-approved babies.

You might say that will never happen, but already reports are coming out that even at 27, most women will need help.

I read news “studies” stating that 27 is now considered on the cusp of “advanced age” (something about it getting much harder to conceive after age 26).
Source: http://familyscholars.org/?p=5925

Researchers find the probability for pregnancy is twice as high for women between 19 and 26 when compared to women ages 35 to 39. The previous belief was that fertility begins to drop significantly when a woman is in her early thirties. One study shows that drop actually starts to happen at about age 27.

Source: http://www.wptv.com/KelleyDunn/061906_TooOldToBeAMom.cfm

While these young women still represent a minority of infertility patients, their numbers are growing, thanks to an exploding fertility industry and an information blitz in the media and on the Internet about the risks of waiting too long to have children. There are little recent hard data on the trend, though, so the evidence is largely anecdotal, coming from doctors and patients alike.

From 1995 to 2002 -- the most recent year for which statistics are available -- the percentage of female college graduates 22 to 29 years of age who had received fertility treatments at some point in their lives doubled, to 23 percent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Survey of Family Growth. At Conceive magazine, a two-year-old publication aimed at women trying to get pregnant, 46 percent of readers are younger than 30 years of age (73 percent of the readers are younger than 35) and 86 percent have college degrees or higher.
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=47251&nfid=crss

So, are you ready for YOUR choice to be taken away too? Better tell the 18 year olds to get pregnant NOW, before it's too late and they are too old! ;)