Thursday, February 19, 2009

Octuplets and Ethics

Nadya Suleman has, by virtue of having her eight children, created a firestorm of conversation about the ethics of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and fertility clinics, and the questions that need to be asked. How does an unemployed mother of six children with exhausted parents (lends to the possibility that she really has nothing to do with them, other than the nightly hug she claims to give) get a doctor to provide a service that is extremely expensive for the average person? She had won a work injury settlement that gave her enough money to start to make a home for herself, but she spends it on herself, not the children she wants to surround herself with to take care of a selfish need for love.

There are so many questions that have yet to be answered, and the ones that have been, have raised more questions. The laws have not caught up with IVF, but it is increasingly apparent that it is going to have to. There should be intelligent questions asked, censure of those who will do what they need to do for money, and an ethic board that oversees the doctors that are in the fertility clinics.

Anyone want to second the opinion?

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