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

[Daisy and Delilah]

Sorry everybody. I didn't notice that the topic was already being covered. Karen PM'd me to let me know that she was merging.
I was only looking for the word "Octuplets" in the title and I missed it.

Anyway......I was reading this story earlier. I went to the website for the Whittier newspaper. I can't believe this woman had 6 children and wanted IV for "just one more child". I can understand that it would be hard to make a decision to abort to reduce the quantity of eggs. What I don't understand, why did a woman with 6 children need more children at all?

I was a single mother so that isn't a question in my mind. I am a huge supporter of single momhood. That's not really the point. However, husband or no husband, she's going to need alot of help.

How does she expect to care for these children? Did she think about who would pay to raise them? Raising 14 children is going to be difficult for her. Her father is willing to take care of them financially with his salary from his job in Iraq. Her mother says she's always been obsessed with having children. Ay yi yi!!

I really don't know what to say about this. It's mind boggling.

[RICHARD]

Sorry everybody. I didn't notice that the topic was already being covered. Karen PM'd me to let me know that she was merging.
I was only looking for the word "Octuplets" in the title and I missed it.

Admit it, You have problems with the alphabet!

I would not have posted the story had not the esteemed senator from the Great Late State of Cah lee fuh Nee Ah, not come out and put her stilleto in her kisser!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Whether she can "afford" them or not, whether she has a husband or not are irrelevant facts to me.

The planet cannot afford them.

People bitch and moan about the government interferring in our lives. If we continue to do stupid things we get laws to try and control our behavior. Someone has to if we cannot control ourselves.

I consider anyone giving birth to so many children no better than a backyard breeder or someone who does not spay or neuter pets.

Irresponsible! I cannot understand why there are television shows that glorify people who have lots of children. (Or so I have heard...)

[Cinder & Smoke]

The planet cannot afford them.

I consider anyone giving birth to so many children no better than a
backyard breeder or someone who does not spay or neuter pets.

Irresponsible!
I cannot understand why there are television shows
that glorify people who have lots of children.
(Or so I have heard ... )

You must have missed the Today Show when they 'featured' this SuperSized Family >>>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28948599/

"Meet the Duggar family — all 19 of them ...
Arkansas couple believe children are ‘special gifts from God’ "

[Medusa]

Before I nodded off last night, I saw on TV that it will cost a minimum of $480,000.00 for hospital care for the octuplets and that's on top of the cost of the invitro process itself. I'm sure this woman has this much money put aside for just such an occasion and won't have to rely on the dole at all.

[pomtzu]

Before I nodded off last night, I saw on TV that it will cost a minimum of $480,000.00 for hospital care for the octuplets and that's on top of the cost of the invitro process itself. I'm sure this woman has this much money put aside for just such an occasion and won't have to rely on the dole at all.

But of course! Just like she has the income to provide care for all 14 (and herself) for at least the next 18 years!

[RICHARD]

Before I nodded off last night, I saw on TV that it will cost a minimum of $480,000.00 for hospital care for the octuplets and that's on top of the cost of the invitro process itself. I'm sure this woman has this much money put aside for just such an occasion and won't have to rely on the dole at all.

Kaiser is a non profit hospital that is a HMO.

If she can afford the premiums, it won't cost anyone anything-except the people in the plan..


We DON"T KNOW if she had the procedure done here in the U.S. where repro med is regulated. She live a stroller's push away from the border and she may have done like many people here in the states-gone across the border for treatment-


I think all the panic is pretty PREMATURE (Pun Intended) and we shouldn't count our embryos before they hatch.

[Grace]

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. . . . . . . . and we shouldn't count our embryos before they hatch.

Too late, Richard. They hatched last week, all 8 of them.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Kaiser is a non profit hospital that is a HMO.

If she can afford the premiums, it won't cost anyone anything-except the people in the plan..

Boy are you naive as to how medical care is paid for in this country!

[pomtzu]

Kaiser is a non profit hospital that is a HMO.

If she can afford the premiums, it won't cost anyone anything-except the people in the plan..

I seriously doubt a woman with 6 kids, unemployed, living with her parents, and lost her home to foreclosure, could afford private insurance premiums. And it won't cost anyone anything??? I guess she won't be seeking public assistance for herself and 14 kids??? Think again!

[Medusa]

[QUOTE=RICHARD;2118099]Kaiser is a non profit hospital that is a HMO.

If she can afford the premiums, it won't cost anyone anything-except the people in the plan../[QUOTE]

Why are you shouting? Or is it that you think that we are vision impaired?

One way or another, it's probable that the burden of paying for all of this will fall on the taxpayer or she'll get corporate donations, etc. I, on the other hand, may need another bone graft on my jaw and my insurance company to which I struggle to pay huge premiums every month, won't pay for it. Do you not see the inequity of this or shall I type in bold large fonts in order to get the point across?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Kaiser is a non profit hospital that is a HMO.

If she can afford the premiums, it won't cost anyone anything-except the people in the plan..

Well...well...well... on the radio this morning the daily report on this woman mentioned she is on MediCal (the state program of medical care for the indigent)! So I guess it IS costing something to other than "the people in the plan..."

Of course, this was followed by a report on California having the worst credit rating of the 50 states.

Again, my issue is abuse of finite resources.

[Puckstop31]

Whether she can "afford" them or not, whether she has a husband or not are irrelevant facts to me.

The planet cannot afford them.

People bitch and moan about the government interferring in our lives. If we continue to do stupid things we get laws to try and control our behavior. Someone has to if we cannot control ourselves.

I consider anyone giving birth to so many children no better than a backyard breeder or someone who does not spay or neuter pets.

Irresponsible! I cannot understand why there are television shows that glorify people who have lots of children. (Or so I have heard...)

Hmmmm... Facist much ES?

Where do you get off saying this was a stupid thing to do? And as for having too many children, don't worry... We are aborting WAY more than people like her can make up for.

Why can't you looney lefties just be happy? I don't care what YOU do, as long as you stay out of my life. Why can't we ALL do that? Why do SOME have to think they know better for everybody else?

Kinda funny to hear this from the person whose mantra often is "we have to do it for the children".

[pomtzu]

Hmmmm... Facist much ES?

Where do you get off saying this was a stupid thing to do? And as for having too many children, don't worry... We are aborting WAY more than people like her can make up for.

Why can't you looney lefties just be happy? I don't care what YOU do, as long as you stay out of my life. Why can't we ALL do that? Why do SOME have to think they know better for everybody else?

Kinda funny to hear this from the person whose mantra often is "we have to do it for the children".

And I guess it makes no difference to you, that you and all the other taxpayers are footing this bill, and will for years to come???

[Edwina's Secretary]

As a local story this gets so much coverage here. One of the things that was said is that hospitals routinely write off much of the cost of this type of multiple births. So she won't have to worry too much about that $480,000. (Although that seems a little low to me. I have seen claims of $250,000 for premie twins...)

When a hospital "writes off" services provided that means you and I pay for it.