Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. I have movie reviews to write and great classics of American film to dissect, but before I have the time and the energy to do that, I must first register a big ol' WTF? with you all.
Did you see the news item that the woman who had the (fertility treatment-caused) octuplets in Cali has six older children? Excuse me? Let's leave aside the biomedical ethics of the type of fertility treatments that cause/allow women to basically have litters, which of course mean the babies cannot go anywhere near term, and thus have a huge risk of all the many horrible and the many, many less-horrible problems that severe prematurity can bring, plus the costs thereof even if the babies turn out healthy. Let's just discuss a world, or rather, a country in which it's apparently okay to waste our healthcare dollars on expensive treatments to allow people who already have six kids to have more. If you're having trouble getting knocked up with baby #7, maybe that's god's, or the universe's, way of telling you it's time to stop fucking breeding, 'k?
Every single MD involved in that woman's conception needs to have their license revoked. That's all I am saying.
Oh, it makes me so mad. Gah.
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I just turned on CNN for 5 minutes and this was all over it. I had heard about the 8 babies, but not that she already had 6 kids! Geezz!
Amen! I heard some medical ethicist (so-called)on GMA saying that it wasn't their job to tell people how many children to have.
Since when? When they already have six? And at some point or level there's more than the patient's money on the table for this.
Send all all of these physicians to (or back to) some third world country to see the consequences of reckless breeding.
Garumph!
From the AP today:
"LOS ANGELES (Jan. 31) - The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said."
Srsly. Some medical licenses need to be revoked. Fourteen children through in vitro fertilization. OMFG.
In my line, we get half a dozen CA medical news feeds a day because there will always be some pieces of MD sleaze out there who should get a stake through their hearts, not just have licences revoked. This or these MDs need the torches and pitchforks treatment, IMHO.
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