Friday, February 6, 2009

RANT: More on the Moron with Octuplets

February 6th http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29038814/?gt1=43001Well, the Octomoron has finally sat down for an interview -- more Botoxed and limp-plumped than we've seen since Joan Rivers -- and says she wanted "just one more baby, not eight." Right. She had six embryos implanted, because "that was what was available," and "they're my children." Does that mean she wanted the rest of them to die? or just didn't care? If Nadya Suleman really wanted ALL of her frozen embryos to have a chance at life, she would've had them implanted two or three at a time, not all at once. But she would've had to become a baby-making machine for a few years to do it, and it wouldn't have made such a big news splash. Guess it was worth the risk of having them born blind, deformed or otherwise disabled to try it all at once. Next, who is the dumbass 'doctor' who implanted all these embryos, and is he willing to pay some of their medical costs? Is he off the hook just because this was a 'legal' procedure? What about the father/sperm donor? If he knows this woman and agreed to father her 'embryos' -- does he give up his parental responsibilities? Nadya Suleman's own parents have disowned her for this irresponsible act -- one of the few sources of emotional (if not financial) support she had left. If this case was REALLY about the best interest of her children, she'd never have gone through with it this way. Whereas I don't believe a woman should ever be forced to carry through a pregnancy she doesn't want -- neither do I believe in abusing one's right to reproduce. If nothing else, this case should spark debate on changing legislation for fertility doctors. If one cannot even provide for one's existing children, one should not have the option of having embryos implanted if the resulting children will have to be raised at the taxpayers' expense. These innocent victims of their mother's attention-getting fantasy should have been adopted out as embryos if she really wanted them all to have a chance at life. But it's still not too late -- she can give them to childless couples who have the sincere desire to love and raise them, not gain fame from their very existence.

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