Wednesday, March 4, 2009

fourteen kids?!?!

I’ve recently read an article about the second woman giving birth to live octuplets in the US. Though a birth of a new child should be rejoicing, this article shames the mother of these octuplets. She already has six other children all ranging from ages 2 to 7 and she is currently unemployed. Also, the octuplets she gave birth to were implanted embryos. The article stated that the only reason she did this was to get more money from the government which basically is coming from us, the tax payers. So now child services are debating whether they should take away her children because she obviously can’t take care of all of them. I strongly do agree with this article that it is not right for this woman to be popping out multiple babies all at once. Is it even legal to implant that many embryos in one person especially a woman in her situation? It just seems bizarre to me that doctors would even implant that amount of embryos in her without checking up on her background. Yeah, mothers should have all rights with their own children, but I don’t think this mother can tend to her young ones momentarily.
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  1. KeelyMarch 11, 2009 at 8:41 PM

    I agree completely, this women is not only unemployed, but she does not have a husband, a home, or the mental stability it takes to raise children. It's obvious that the government should take away the 8 babies when not only can she not afford to take care of the 6 she has, but she is trying to sell the precious moments of the babies life for cold hard money. I mean seriously, a birthing video for 2 million dollars. That's a lot of money, but even as mastercard would say, somethings are "priceless."

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  2. This Must be the Place . . .March 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM

    You write, "Is it even legal to implant that many embryos in one person especially a woman in her situation? It just seems bizarre to me that doctors would even implant that amount of embryos in her without checking up on her background?"

    That's a good question. Is it illegal to implant that many? I don't think so. Immoral? Maybe? An ill-conceived idea? Definitely.

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