***I would like to edit this and say that I heard all of this on GMA this morning. I do not normally watch but it was on after my hubby left for work and I ended up hearing what I am commenting on in this post***That this woman who just had eight babies is a complete nut case!!! Not to mention the doctor that she probably paid with the hard earned money of other Americans who are having a hard time paying their own bills. I am outraged that a man who took an oath to do no harm would even consider such an outrageous thing. I find it even harder to believe that he did not know that there was something not quite right about this woman that he was treating. He was there and checked on each pregnancy. I also think that he was looking for some kind of recognition, albeit not this kind. I think that through this he was hoping to boost his fertility practice even more. I cannot see how this is not harmful.... To the children that were already here, and the new babies that have a mother who is to say the least not in touch with reality. This doctor had to know that there was some issues with this woman who obviously has no intention of taking responsibility for these 14 little children who have had no choice in this matter at all..... This woman is the reason why some who don't know any better look down on ART.
I feel like there should be more interviews with women like us who have been fighting for all that we are worth to try and have children through IVF. Now there is going to be those ignorant people who think that this is what women who have tried for years to have children are aiming for... This woman had used the system in a horrible way. She had been on disability for a back injury!!!!! Give me a break PLEASE!!! If she had a back injury how did she carry six pregnancies?!?! Not to mention that one was with 8 count em 8 babies....
I am not disputing the fact that she loves her children, but I would like to know that our tax dollars are really at work. I would like to see her investigated and brought up on charges of fraud. That is what she did. She stole from the system, and in my opinion she still is.
I am just sick. I feel like people like this young woman make it harder for those who need IVF for the right reasons. My thoughts are that she really had no fertility issues--and she used donor sperm instead of getting a husband. She is a real sicko!!! She is one of those people who needs to get a job and have to do what the rest of us do.... Work for it.... I am wondering if this is the same doctor who diagnosed her back injury? I also wonder how those babies are being cared for if not by the welfare system...... I would like to have been a fly on the wall when she told her parents that she was having another 8 babies. She doesn't support the ones she has and the fact that her mother said that she spends the money that she does get on toys for the children, and does not help with household expenses. She also gets 490.00 per month in food stamps. I wonder how much she will be getting now... To be honest I do not know how she got any help at all see how she used IVF to get pregnant in the first place. I can't get any help at all and I am one of those who truly needs it. Our system stinks when it comes to investigating all of these women. I also feel like since she is such a good liar that she more likely than not lied about how she conceived in order to get the assistance.
OK I had to vent a little, maybe alot. But I just don't feel like it is fair that she can do whatever she wants and everyone is paying her and she has a publisist!! I also think that this was her plan all along to get rich off of her children, and I really feel sorry for those poor babies who really don't stand much of a chance with this woman as a mother.... I also believe that she knew that once this went public that she would have to answer to someone about all of the money that she took for a non-exsistent back injury. She had to think quick and so she came up with keeping her mouth shut until she got the money that she wanted for her interview, which to me was no more than a nicely packaged bundle of LIES..... OK I am now stepping down from my soapbox..... I pray that these children, and new babies have all that they need and all the love they deserve. It is sad the life they will endure because of thier mother, they will always be in the spotlight, and the thought of how they will be looked at by other children. I don't think that she thought this out to well, but then thinking does not seem to be high on her list of priorities.
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Wow, obviously there was a lot I didn't know about this case. I'd been hearing about it, but mostly just little snippets here and there. I do agree that situations like this make people look down on ART. I'm grateful for the lives of all of those children, but I definitely question the mother's motives & I'm concerned about how she'll care for all of them.
I've been following this closely mostly because I'm annoyed by it. I think that yes it does give infertiles a bad name. When people think infertility treatments, this is what they think about, not the person doing it responsbily and having a singleton.
So far she maintains that she isn't on welfare and if she's honest (not saying she is) she's clueless thinking that she's going to get by with volunteers and gifts to support 14 children. Whether she was in this for the money or what I don't know but she really is ignorant. Also I am guessing that by making it to 30 weeks the babies for the most part are going to be pretty ok. That is often not the case but with this so much in the spotlight I'm sure there are those who won't think about that.
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