Ms. Pelosi, Meet A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H!

[shais_mom]

I think the whole thing is ABSURD. I TOTALLY agree with whoever said she needed counseling instead of fertility drugs.
While I certainly do not think that doctors have the right to tell someone how many children they should have, this woman, who claims she got paid to have the kids should have been stopped.
One of the older children also has autism I believe. While I have nothing against people having more than 1-2 children, (its their right of course) I firmly believe in the concept of only having 2 to replace yourself and spouse, etc. (can't remember what it was called) but those people that have more than 2 children apparently are just taking up my allotment.
This woman is no different than a collector of dogs or cats, she is just choosing to have kids. Why would you want to do that to your body like that? Crazy.
This woman is no different than the local trash I see every week coming into my ER who has 5 kids but 3-5 different fathers. And is on welfare. It just cost her (US) a LOT more to have 14 kids.

[Grace]

I think the whole thing is ABSURD. I TOTALLY agree with whoever said she needed counseling instead of fertility drugs.
While I certainly do not think that doctors have the right to tell someone how many children they should have, this woman, who claims she got paid to have the kids should have been stopped.
One of the older children also has autism I believe. While I have nothing against people having more than 1-2 children, (its their right of course) I firmly believe in the concept of only having 2 to replace yourself and spouse, etc. (can't remember what it was called) but those people that have more than 2 children apparently are just taking up my allotment.
This woman is no different than a collector of dogs or cats, she is just choosing to have kids. Why would you want to do that to your body like that? Crazy.
This woman is no different than the local trash I see every week coming into my ER who has 5 kids but 3-5 different fathers. And is on welfare. It just cost her (US) a LOT more to have 14 kids.

Oh boy, do I agree with you!! And that concept of only replacing ones self - Zero Population Growth.

[sasvermont]

We cannot dictate how many children one wants or bring into this world. Not yet, anyway!

Do I think this woman will be a good mother? Who knows at this point. She will need a team of people to help with taking care of the infants.

I just read (not necessarily true) on the INTERNET news (Goggle) web site, that she has hope in getting $2,000,000 in TV, book deals. I think they should make her payoff her hospital bill straight off, then set up trust funds for the dozen + kids.

Does anyone know what religion she affiliates herself with, if any?

I, too, think she needs a good deal of mental health counseling.

FYI:
Several factors contribute to the development of a multiple pregnancy:

Heredity: A history of multiple births on a woman's side of the family increases her chances of having a multiple pregnancy.

Race: Women of African descent are the most likely to have multiple pregnancies.

Number of prior pregnancies: Having more than one previous pregnancy, especially a multiple pregnancy, increases the chance of having a multiple pregnancy.

Delayed childbearing: Older women who get pregnant are more likely to have multiples.

Infertility treatment: Fertility drugs, which stimulate the ovaries to release multiple eggs, or assisted reproductive technology (ART), which transfers multiple embryos into the womb (such as in vitro fertilization, or IVF), greatly increase a woman's chance of having a multiple pregnancy.

It's the last two factors that have been on the rise in the last couple of decades and are probably responsible for the increase in multiple births.


I guess I would not care much about this if I thought she and her parents could afford to keep these children healthy and alive. I DO resent that she is not paying for the delivery of these children, as far as I know. I heard an early report that the initial cost of each child to be in intensive care for the first few weeks would be at least $300,000 (each). You do the math.

I didn't read all the earlier posts, so please forgive me if I repeated what someone else has already posted.

One more time, I do not agree with her having all these children, but she did. Also, I suspect she medicated to increase the egg fertility, dropping way more egss than would have been implanted if she did the IVF routine. I just cannot imagine any doctor implanting that many embryos.