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>>14361801
Literally nobody is saying that women past a certain age children are guaranteed to be unhealthy/deformed. What is said, quite rightly, is that after about 35 the risk of almost all deformities, birth defects, chromosomal defects, genetic lesions and developmental pathologies increases in a statistically significant manner. So while you CAN have healthy births at high ages (the oldest mother on record was a few days shy of 67), the CHANCE of a healthy birth decreases dramatically with age.

Maternal age is heavily correlated with unhealthy births and the age at which the correlation takes off is around 35. This isn't some retarded bro-science, this is readily accepted among medical researchers. Most countries with functioning healthcare systems now offer a screening battery for expectant mothers over 35 to test for various pathologies.

Pic related is for trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), and cited from PMID: 10969860.