'Madness' - AMA president says woman having baby at 62 is 'selfish and wrong'

By Rania Spooner and Broede Carmody
Updated August 4 2016 - 10:18pm, first published August 3 2016 - 4:14pm
AMA president Dr Michael Gannon. Photo: Bohdan Warchomij
AMA president Dr Michael Gannon. Photo: Bohdan Warchomij
A 62-year-old Tasmanian woman has become the oldest woman to give birth in Australia.  Photo: Channel 7
A 62-year-old Tasmanian woman has become the oldest woman to give birth in Australia. Photo: Channel 7

Australian Medical Association president Michael Gannon has slammed the birth of a child to a 62-year-old mother as "selfish," "wrong" and "madness".

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