If you're an older woman and desperate to become a mother, there is a new procedure which might help you.

In essence, what it does is overhaul your eggs and makes them young again. 

The technique was developed in the United States, and doctors in the UK want to trial, but it's yet to be approved there.

This is how it works: Doctors take young cells from a woman’s ovaries and add them to the egg's mitochondria (which is the egg's battery pack, of sorts), and because eggs become weaker as they age, this procedure essentially gives them an energy boost which improves a woman's fertility.

Some women who are older and want children resort to donor eggs, but if this technique is approved, then women could instead use their own eggs.

They're trialing the process in Canada, in Turkey, and Dubai. The research in Dubai shows that it increases the odds of pregnancy five-fold in women in their late 30s. In the UK, Professor Fishel (he co-founded the world’s first IVF clinic) has asked authorities if he can treat 20 women with this technique.

And, as you would expect, it's raised all sorts of ethical questions.

What this procedure won't do, is rid eggs of the genetic problems that sometimes occur as eggs age. Chromosomal abnormalities, for example. 

I guess the question is, if we have developed the technology to, in essence, turbocharge an aging woman's eggs, should we use it?

If a woman or a couple desires a biological child and we have the technology to help them, is it a given that we should?

How old is too old, and who should be the judge of that? Some people get hot under the collar about medical intervention. It doesn't bother me, I have to say.

If it's a safe procedure and it ultimately brings happiness and a new life to the world, then so be it.