the ethics of octuplets....

[strollingbones]

Octuplets: Eight times the ethical questions - CNN.com


many questions have been raised? why would a woman with 6 kids have fertility treatments? what doctors implanted 8 fertilized eggs? what do you think?

 

[Sky Dancer]

What difference is it to you? It's her family.

 

[roomy]

It does the beg the question though, especially due to the monetary significance.

 

[Againsheila]

Octuplets: Eight times the ethical questions - CNN.com


many questions have been raised? why would a woman with 6 kids have fertility treatments? what doctors implanted 8 fertilized eggs? what do you think?

I think she took a dangerous chance with her life and those of the 8 babies. If she truly did have 8 embryos implanted, she should be chastised. There is no way anyone can carry 8 babies to term and have them all come out healthy and normal.

What if she'd died during delivery? She'd have left at least 6 children without their "wonderful" mother.

I have no problems with people wanting more children, but adoption is always an answer. Why give birth to special needs kids when you can adopt special needs kids that need a "wonderful" mother?

 

[Sky Dancer]

It's her business.

 

[FistyTheBadger]

What difference is it to you? It's her family.

It affects public perspective on what is right and wrong, and so it affects everyone, and it is not just her family, because unless she moves, we are paying for her government condoned insanity.

 

[FistyTheBadger]

It's her business.

You are very unright.

 

[roomy]

She will make a fortune.

 

[Againsheila]

It's her business.

What happened to "It takes a village to raise a child?"

 

[Sky Dancer]

What happened to privacy and personal choice?

 

[FistyTheBadger]

What happened to privacy and personal choice?

What happened to "she's affecting the lives of many children" AND "we are paying for it through government programs"?

 

[manu1959]

What happened to privacy and personal choice?

you mean like the ability to keep the money i earn and not send it to support people that can't figure out life.....

 

[Sky Dancer]

Are you and I paying to raise this woman's children? The babies are in perfect health.

 

[roomy]

Are you and I paying to raise this woman's children?

Both directly and indirectly.

 

[Sky Dancer]

Nonsense. I wouldn't want to have a litter of children myself, but I don't think it's my place to judge this woman's choice. She has a healthy, although unusual, family.

Why are internet posters such control freaks?

 

[FistyTheBadger]

Are you and I paying to raise this woman's children? The babies are in perfect health.

I know I am. You probably are, too.

 

[Againsheila]

Are you and I paying to raise this woman's children? The babies are in perfect health.

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No, they're not. At least one of them is on a feeding tube and we won't know for years what their neurological problems are, if any.

 

[FistyTheBadger]

Nonsense. I wouldn't want to have a litter of children myself, but I don't think it's my place to judge this woman's choice. She has a healthy, although unusual, family.

Why are internet posters such control freaks?

She does not have a healthy family.

 

[Sky Dancer]

So what? People take risks when they bear children.

Someone who calls himself fisty the badger seems in no position to judge anyone else's choices.

 

[roomy]

Nonsense. I wouldn't want to have a litter of children myself, but I don't think it's my place to judge this woman's choice. She has a healthy, although unusual, family.

Why are internet posters such control freaks?

I thought we were debating the pros and cons?