Don't Reward This Woman
When I heard a gal in southern California had octuplets, I paid great attention. It's not everyday that a single woman produces a litter of children. I'm all for having the family of your dreams and I support individual descisions on reproductive rights. What I don't like is irresponsibility and this situations screams of it. Between the idiot doctor who thought it would be a great idea to put eight little beings in a single unemployed woman who already had six children, and the actual gal who thought this might be a great idea, I don't know who's the bigger idiot.
The doctors are screaming back that they're not the reproductive police. No, you're not the defender of the ovary but but for chriminy sakes, have a little common sense about the quality of life for these children. My feeling is that in this certain case, I'm sure the awareness of the prospective movie and book deals probably had a lot of influence when the time came for implantation.
And to the "mom" or should I say bearer of the litter. You are a single unemployed mother of 14 children. Did I happen to mention you're only 33 years old and live with your parents in a modest three bedroom house? Thank you very much for spending my tax dollars so unwisely. I demand the opportunity to name at least one of your kids since I'm gonna be helping in paying for them for the rest of their lives. Good grief, shame on you. I really hope you have some sort of mental illness because I would hate to think that you were fueled only by greed and hopes of Hollywood stardom. You've already proclaimed that you want to focus on being some professional child rearing expert. The only expertise you can claim is milking an already exhausted system.
In case you don't know, the biotch is asking for handouts. I figured the donations would start rolling in but this is seriously sickening - especially for those of us who have the amount of children we can actually care for. The hospital stay alone, is expected to cost $1.6 million dollars. Ridiculous.
*** Edited to add: Should you wish to leave a cowardly anonymous comment full of profanity and randomness, rest assured you will not be published on this blog. I already edited one for PG-13 status, but the second I received (presumably from the same angry person) will not be published since it's just a lame attempt at more attention and reeks of smelly troll. ***
Comments
This whole story saddened me from the start... It's about health and quality of life. I understand about wanting a family, and plenty of large families have happy healthy kids, but she doesn't seem to have the whole-hearted support of her family - her mom is threatening to leave before they get home, and the grandpa already looks frazzled... Certainly a medical feat but one better reserved for a family with more support. Coming at it all from an infertility angle, I'm totally disgusted with the medical professionals involved with the IVF in the first place. When my hubby & I went through the process, we had to sign a contract with the clinic as to the number we could carry to term - a difficult pill to swallow at the time, but a responsible approach... Wow, you hit a nerve with this one - I could go on & on!
Posted by: Carol S-U | February 3, 2009 11:11 AM
You go girl!
Posted by: Aunt Becky | February 3, 2009 11:28 AM
I couldn't agree more.
Posted by: serenity | February 3, 2009 11:54 AM
To me it sounds as a ploy for money.. This hit a huge nerve with me and my hubbie because we cannot afford iVF and have been told that its our only option into conceiving natuarlly. I want to know how she got it for free.. It pisses me off that here she is at 33- has 14 kids and LIVES AT HOME!!!! AG! Why is her father leaving to find work- she needs to get off her fat ARZ and find work to support those rug rats... ALL OF THEM.. If I were her parents I would kick her to the curb. This has all the workings of working the media... Gee-WHIZ!
Posted by: Trying4two99 | February 3, 2009 12:24 PM
AMEN!! It just makes me sick that this women would do this to those poor kids - the ones at home and the ones she just had! The interview with the grandma is what really upset me - the grandma said that she just wouldn't stop having kids even though the family tried to tell her to stop. They are all the same bio dad (sperm donor) too. It's crazy expensive and yet she can afford to have IVF done 7 times? Thats crazy and now she's gonna make the big money.
I understand not wanting to 'reduce' your children but honestly she shouldn't have been implanted this last time at all. Makes me sick that there are people out there than want even one child desparately and can't have them and this lady is just having them with no regards to actually raising them. Poor kids.
Posted by: tiffany | February 3, 2009 05:19 PM
Yeah, you heartless ***, let's just place a scarlet letter on her forehead and place her in the stocks.
Not a damn one of you has taken even one moment to recognize that there are now 14 children who are going to need help, serious help, not this *** moralizing from a bunch of hate-filled harpies masquerading as concerned citizens.
Not a one of you is a doctor, not a one of you has any more knowledge of this woman's state of mind other than what you read on the gossip pages.
Go to hell the lot of you, you simple-minded twits.
**Edited to make at least PG-13** ~Sandi
Posted by: HeartlessBeast | February 5, 2009 11:52 AM
Heartless Beast - We all know the kids will be taken well cared for because WE are the ones that are going to be paying it. The biggest losers in this situation are the kids and I don't think anyone will argue with you on that. Unfortunately, as soon as she decided to go public, asking for handouts and such, it placed her under the public's scrutiny. She had a right to do what she did but it doesn't make it right. Thanks for commenting.
Posted by: Sandi | February 5, 2009 12:54 PM