It is mind boggling. The ability to make babies is not a right to make babies. Freedom of choice gone wild. The real question is why she is not being judged for the sin of arrogance, ignorance and condemning her children to a bleak future?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
WOMAN WITH 6 KIDS DECIDES IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE 8 MORE. THE FIRST SIX ARE RAISED BY GRANDMA. WELFARE, AID, WHATEVER - THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA - THOSE WHO CAN, GET PREGNANT, THOSE WHO CAN'T GET REALITY SHOWS. SOMETIMES THEY GET BOTH.
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It is rewarding, and yes, challenging just to be a Mommy to one sweet child. I couldn't imagine dividing my time between a dozen!
Mind boggling is an understatement!
You know, I haven't heard ONE positive or supportive comment about this situation. I think the public is fascinated by it in almost a gruesome way something like watching CSI. I guess this case will ultimately be the one that guides public policy, don't you think? The most telling comment was in the C.C. Times today, when she said she wasn't on welfare but was on food stamps and receiving support payments for undisclosed disabilities in her children. Her publicist said that she doesn't consider those things welfare.
When she says she is wholly there for her kids (in the excerpted interview), I am thinking of how crazy-hard it is to be "wholly there" for my own four kids with all their needs/issues/normal twists and be a working mom with a husband to help!
I really hope that this family will be OK, and that this mother will indeed figure out a way to support her children financially, emotionally, and in every other way.
She won't be able to exploit them like John & Kate Plus Eight. That show idea is already taken.
I don't think the mom is arrogant, but I do think she is suffering from a mental disorder or illness and should be seeking the help of psychologists/psychiatrists instead of infertility doctors.
I don't think we've heard the real story on how the mom paid for the invitro procedures (at least six procedures assuming each was successful).
I read that she previously received a $160,000 settlement for a back injury she suffered during a riot at the mental hospital where she worked (and hasn't returned to work since that incident). It seems odd that a back injury could be serious enough to warrant such a large settlement and prevent you from returning to work for an extended period and yet not severe enough to deter the mom or her infertility doctor from attempting the invitro procedure (multiple times).
The mom claimed she did not receive wefare and yet she is receiving food stamps (and possibly other public aid). She's not being honest with herself or the public. Still, the children are the innocent victims in all this and we (the public) should and will be responsible for their welfare unless the fertility clinic is made to bear the cost of raising these children. (And, I think the clinic should bear the costs.)
Anyone stupid enough to implant in her should pay. The doctor claimed that it was not his place to decide who should have children. Nonetheless the fact that she can become the news of the moment is a sad reflection on our need for the bizarre to entertain us. There are enough crazies in the world and they do not need to be humored.
If the doctor didn't perform the procedure - he wouldn't make any money, right? He was obviously looking at his pocketbook, rather than what was "ethical".
The doctor said it wasn't up to him to determine how many children a woman should have. That is not entirely correct. The doctors are supposed to screen for mental illness, physical problems, or any other factors (contraindications) before performing the invitro or other fertility procedures.
Also, a former employee previously accused the doctor of tax evasion (collecting payments of around $400,000 from patients in cash and not reporting the amounts to the IRS or the Franchise Tax Board). I hope the Tax authorities will be launching their own investigations into this doctor's or this clinic's practices. (They can line up right alongside the various medical agencies that have already launched their own investigations.)
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