Originally, I had no interest in this story, but, as more details came out, I have to ask:
Does anybody else find it a tad creepy that a woman, who has already given birth to six children through in-vitro, just had another eight?
This woman is unmarried, and incapable of having children the "old fashioned" way. Now she has FOURTEEN children, via in-vitro, done by the same doctors.
How in the hell is this woman going to care for, nurture, educate and pay for these children. Her mother, Angela Suleman, who is currently taking care of her daughter's six children, has already said that she is through helping with raising the kids.
Good for her.
The daughter is nuts.
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Excuuuuuuuse me! But if she... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Maggie Mama | January 31, 2009 6:12 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Excuuuuuuuse me! But if she is unmarried, already has six, exactly what kind of doctor imbeds an additional "eggs" into said welfare candidate?
WALL STREET IS OUT OF CONTROL? ?
Seems to me that the whole friggin world is out of control and I just can't seem to understand the mindset of the people ruling my life. Or should I say "ruining" my life?
Damn Sam, life is sucking big time on my side of the street. I really seem to be out of step with the rest of the world.
1. Posted by Maggie Mama | January 31, 2009 6:12 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on January 31, 2009 18:12
2. Posted by mcg
| January 31, 2009 6:15 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
She didn't have sextuplets. She had six other kids, ages 2-7, two of them twins. All of them conceived via IVF. Yes it's creepy.
2. Posted by mcg
| January 31, 2009 6:15 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 31, 2009 18:15
3. Posted by Diane C. Russell | January 31, 2009 6:16 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
The doctor(s) who did this--not the innocent taxpayers--should be forced to pay for raising the kids.
3. Posted by Diane C. Russell | January 31, 2009 6:16 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on January 31, 2009 18:16
4. Posted by WildWillie | January 31, 2009 6:24 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Exactly. Medical malpractice. This is a joke beyond understandging. Even her mother says she is obsessed. ww
4. Posted by WildWillie | January 31, 2009 6:24 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on January 31, 2009 18:24
5. Posted by Shawn | January 31, 2009 6:28 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
mcg,
Thanks for the correction.
Hard to keep track of all these kids!
Shawn
5. Posted by Shawn | January 31, 2009 6:28 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 18:28
6. Posted by Muzart1 | January 31, 2009 6:37 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Don't worry...all of us will take care of them...just like we do the rest of the lowlife on this planet. Let's spread the wealth!
6. Posted by Muzart1 | January 31, 2009 6:37 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on January 31, 2009 18:37
7. Posted by Marc | January 31, 2009 6:39 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"The daughter is nuts," as is her Momma and Papa (who's incidentally headed to Iraq as a contractor) as enablers of this.
7. Posted by Marc | January 31, 2009 6:39 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 18:39
8. Posted by Jason | January 31, 2009 7:00 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Maybe she thinks she'll get a show on TLC. Having kids is a sport now. It can be very lucrative.
http://www.rightklik.net/
8. Posted by Jason | January 31, 2009 7:00 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 19:00
9. Posted by tyree | January 31, 2009 7:33 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Medical malpractice indeed. We told everyone a long, long time ago that there would be severe negative societal impact from the "War on Poverty" and we were right. A married couple gives up the right to hundreds of thousands of dollars of aid that is available to unmarried women. We have allowed Nancy Pelosi's "Culture of Corruption" to corrupt the American people.
9. Posted by tyree | January 31, 2009 7:33 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 19:33
10. Posted by James Cloninger | January 31, 2009 8:20 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
You know, the joke over at uberfeminazi "Feministing.com" is that it's "a vagina, not a clown car"
I note the awesome volume of crickets on this topic over there...
10. Posted by James Cloninger | January 31, 2009 8:20 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 20:20
11. Posted by Sue in Ohio | January 31, 2009 9:55 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
This story is just bizarre. What in the world is wrong with the doctors? I agree with #3 - let the doctors support the kids.
11. Posted by Sue in Ohio | January 31, 2009 9:55 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 21:55
12. Posted by Rick13 | January 31, 2009 9:59 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I understand that she also lives with her parents. Super sponge!
12. Posted by Rick13 | January 31, 2009 9:59 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 21:59
13. Posted by Tom Blogical | January 31, 2009 10:10 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Hmm...and I thought raising two was challenging enough. If the movie Parenthood was right and a complicated life is just like riding a roller coaster, then this woman has serious thrill issues.
13. Posted by Tom Blogical | January 31, 2009 10:10 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 22:10
14. Posted by Mac Lorry | January 31, 2009 10:26 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
As usual the sentiment is that there's got to be some man to blame this on. Some think it's the fertility doctor, some think it's the grandpa for being an enabler, and some say it's the sperm donor. However, when it comes to having kids the law is moot on who can have them and how many; relying on biology alone to set limits. Yes, she loves children, but that's not yet a crime.
The mother is well educated with a bachelor's degree in child development and she's working on her masters. Maybe she can get a deal writing a book and money for interviews. With money she can contact Al Gore and purchase absolution for her extravagant lifestyle of having 14 kids (what's the carbon offset for having a kid?) I wouldn't judge her too harshly just yet.
14. Posted by Mac Lorry | January 31, 2009 10:26 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2009 22:26
15. Posted by glenn | February 1, 2009 1:00 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Simple answer, she's going to stick those of us who create wealth with the bill. Ditto the Doctors. Thanks suckers.
15. Posted by glenn | February 1, 2009 1:00 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 01:00
16. Posted by Bob | February 1, 2009 7:38 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Bill OReilly featured this story on his show last week, including an interview with an ob-gyn, who raised questions about the ethics of the doctor who implanted the embryos. This woman and her 14 children live in a small home, and it's hard to see how anyone, even with the help of her parents, could adequately care for this many small children at one time. Most large families are acquired gradually, so the older children can help with the younger ones. I don't recall anything being reported on her economic status or how she financed the cost of fertility treatment, which is quite expensive, but like some other posters, i am concerned that her medical bills and the cost of raising her brood will be borne by the taxpayers.
16. Posted by Bob | February 1, 2009 7:38 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 07:38
17. Posted by Oyster | February 1, 2009 8:03 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Mac, I understand your willingness to withhold judgment on this woman, but....
As soon as I heard of this, I started looking for information so as not to be so judgmental myself. Nadya does have a bachelor's degree and did begin to work toward her master's, but stopped attending school last spring. She hasn't worked either. She's been living with her parents. I'd be interested too in knowing who is paying for her education, who is paying this enormous doctor and hospital bill and who is going to feed and care for 14 children from this day forward.
Now she's looking for quite the tidy sum to give interviews. Yet, it's been reiterated in several articles that she didn't do it for fame or riches.
17. Posted by Oyster | February 1, 2009 8:03 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 08:03
18. Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic | February 1, 2009 8:47 AM | Score: 7 (9 votes cast)
Her body, her choice.
And thanks to creeping socialism we're all on the hook financially for her indiscretion.
Not to worry, I'm sure additional aid for single mothers who choose in-vitro pregnancy is buried in the so-called stimulus bill somewhere...
18. Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic | February 1, 2009 8:47 AM |
Score: 7 (9 votes cast)
Posted on February 1, 2009 08:47
19. Posted by hcddbz | February 1, 2009 9:31 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Baron Von Ottomatic
Have to agree. Everything about this is creepy. However who would care if the specter of Public assistance were not involved. I worry soon there will be the China policy of x number of children and then force abortions. Her body, her eggs if we would allow people to live with the consequences of their decisions maybe they would make better ones.
The other thing that I do not like are doctors who are willing to make diagnose and offer comments on people with out even one real interview. There hacks and do more damage than good. Of course the press has to use them because if they did talk with her it would violate the ethics.
I hope her children grow up OK.
19. Posted by hcddbz | February 1, 2009 9:31 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 09:31
20. Posted by MF | February 1, 2009 11:30 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Me too hcddbz I am concerned about the children
20. Posted by MF | February 1, 2009 11:30 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 11:30
21. Posted by Brad Fry | February 1, 2009 1:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So many eggs! So little time!
21. Posted by Brad Fry | February 1, 2009 1:09 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 13:09
22. Posted by WildWillie | February 1, 2009 5:13 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Baron, I agree with you almost all the time, but it may be her body, but the doctor had to do something to it. He is complicit. ww
22. Posted by WildWillie | February 1, 2009 5:13 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 17:13
23. Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic | February 1, 2009 8:18 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I was being facetious, Willie...
23. Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic | February 1, 2009 8:18 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 20:18
24. Posted by Largebill | February 1, 2009 10:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
We have reached six billion people doing it the old fashioned way. I'm not judging her for the number of kids. I'm the fourth of nine and we had a family in our neighborhood with 14. The method is another matter. I feel sorry for folks who can not conceive normally. However, that doesn't mean we need to do weird stuff to make babies.
24. Posted by Largebill | February 1, 2009 10:33 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2009 22:33
25. Posted by WildWillie | February 2, 2009 10:27 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
My bad. Regrets. ww
25. Posted by WildWillie | February 2, 2009 10:27 AM |
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Posted on February 2, 2009 10:27
26. Posted by Boogliodemus | February 5, 2009 6:58 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Don't forget, 'It takes a Village'!
26. Posted by Boogliodemus | February 5, 2009 6:58 AM |
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Posted on February 5, 2009 06:58