Quote Originally Posted by Medusa View Post
this woman obsessed w/ child bearing (according to her parents)
Just a question, can this be considered a psychological obsession? Is there a diagnosis for an unreasonable obsession with pregnancy and birth? Because maybe that would have been a reasonable argument for the physicians to not implant all eight.

Quote Originally Posted by Medusa
Consider that she has six other children to care for and ask yourself if it's reasonable or ethical to add more children to the mix.
Question again. If it is unreasonable or unethical for this woman with six children to bear eight more - which I definitely think it is, for reasons that have been well articulated elsewhere in this thread - what can be done about it? And whose responsibility is it - the medical community, the legal system, etc.? It is not biophysically responsible for this woman to have borne eight children at once. A bad decision on the doctor's part to allow the treatment to go forward. It is not fiscally responsible because all of the babies will incur massive medical bills that the mother is obviously not able to pay more than a minuscule portion of. They may very well have long-term complications of prematurity. None of the 14 will get the share of their mother's attention that they deserve. And there are other women in this world dealing with infertility.