Interesting Article About Octomom

As a follow-up to Sarah’s post from a few weeks ago about the octomom, a Post-Dispatch columnist has a nice article today that asks some good questions. I am the first to admit I don’t know the answers. I don’t like the idea of laws controlling this situation, but I could be persuaded. Most importantly, people need to understand how they will be condemned and ostracized by others when they do things like implant multiple embryos as part of fertility treatments into a woman who already has six children. The doctor is as much to blame here as the woman. And, because media interviews conducted since Sarah’s initial post indicate that this woman appears to be nuts, the state should probably play a role in monitoring the children. It will already be paying for the next 18 years of their lives. …