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She is on 24-hour medication, has a feeding tube and weighs less than 20 pounds."All you see is the survival rates," Perillo said.

"If they're born at 28 weeks, 95 percent survive, what's the problem?

You don't realize what the survival is, how sick they are."Trying for motherhood There is a drawback to waiting.

Fertility declines as women reach their 30s, making it more difficult to conceive.Many women are not aware of that, said Merry-K.

Moos, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina and a nurse practitioner."If I have a female patient who is 34, I will ask her what her reproductive plans are and when she plans on having children, if she does," Moos said.

"I feel I must tell her about the risks of delaying childbirth."Some women turn to fertility treatments, like in vitro fertilization, a process in which an embryo - usually more than one - is implanted in the uterus.Since 1981, more than 114,000 American babies have been born this way - just under 1 percent of all births, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.Delaware has a higher rate, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From 2001 to 2002, about 155 babies were conceived through fertility treatments ...

While seemingly natural sounding, the knowledge and technology to enhance the body in this way is far from natural and probably would have been considered an unfair advantage by the original Olympians.Second, if anyone thinks that the Olympics is ''fair" in the sense that athletes start from an equal point, it might be worth considering that the wealthy and individual-focused United States holds the record of Olympic gold medals: 907 since 1896.

The second best country in those standings was the USSR (from 1952-88) with 395, and we know that a good deal of that success was based on intense training backed up with resources from an authoritarian government.Do people from the United States and the former Soviet Union have some sort of natural athletic talent that the rest of the world lacks?

That's an unlikely scenario, and the rational way to explain the huge divergence in results is differences in culture, wealth, and focus.

Since it's clear that all athletes do not start from an equal basis, they should be allowed to make up for their deficiencies.

That's what humans have been doing for centuries, and it's the quest for never-ending self-improvement that is the true spirit of human character.Some may object t...