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It's a busy time to be a fertility ethics specialist. While the TV news, tabloids, and blog-pundits were still frothing about the mother of six who had given birth to octuplets*, word came from western Canada that 60-year-old Ranjit Hayer had had twins. (For what it's worth, Hayer doesn't hold a record. That may belong to Carmela Bousada, a Spaniard who had twins six days before her 67th birthday.) These stories may be at the sensational end of the fertility treatment spectrum, but the questions they bring up will probably last long after the national gaze has turned to other spectacles.