A while back researchers in the labs were working overtime on ways to extend life expectancy well past 100. If they were successful it would not be considered unusual for a person to reach his or her 170th birthday. When I read that, all I could think of was buying Christmas gifts for children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and great-great-great-grandchildren. Have mercy!

And now I read about yet another remarkable effort. Scientists have now made it possible for women who have gone through menopause to become pregnant through the implantation of donated eggs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, four out of seven post-menopausal women who use this method become pregnant and give birth to healthy babies.

Cut it out, you folks in the nation’s research centers. There is still a long list of diseases that we have no cure for. Please work on these and don’t “help” women in their late 40’s and 50’s have babies. The best break Mother Nature gives us is menopause and the freedom from pregnancy. Please, geniuses, keep your cotton-picking hands off this God-given blessing.