Crazy Woman Of The Day
Don’t get all bent. I wouldn’t have made this about gender if not for a good reason.
Neighbors told ABC News that the octuplets’ mother is single, in her 30s and already has six other children. She lives with her mother who, according to public records, filed for bankruptcy in March 2008.
Okay.
She already had six kids. I’d shoot myself if I had six kids. I may go and shoot up the neighborhood if I was told I was having eight more.
Why do you have artificial insemination when you already have kids and no man, live at home because you have six kids and no man, and you’ve now given birth to a pitcher short of fielding a baseball team?
This woman must be crazy.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
the picture is VERY fitting..I saw this story the other day on Yahoo or something, I thought “good LORD why would she have SO many kids?!”
January 30th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Every time I learn more about this story, it gets more creepy.
Don’t fertility doctors have any ethical standards?
And why is she obsessed with having so many children? Could she have been coerced or brainwashed by “someone”?
January 30th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I’m all for people having big families…
…-IF- they can afford them.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
or HANDLE them…
January 31st, 2009 at 12:29 am
As for why, I’d say she wanted to and since she wants to have them she must be held to task on caring for them herself (help coming from those who wish to is acceptable) without forcing anyone else to foot the bill.
@RoseRRR Fertility Doctors have the same standards as anyone else providing a service. I’m sure if she is obsessed we will hear about it and I’m sure if she was brainwashed into it we will find out.
If she was coerced however, said person should be made to foot the bill as they have violated her rights.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:15 am
Is there such thing as a Crazy Baby Lady?
January 31st, 2009 at 2:08 am
chrisbg99, there is now I guess.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:39 am
Come on Bob, the kids can play the whole field, including pitcher. I mean, she herself is obviously the catcher….
January 31st, 2009 at 7:25 am
The “John and Ken” radio show on KFI Am 640 in Los Angles has been all over this story right from the start. Their reporter Eric Leonard has been digging into it and the current, unsubstantiated report is she obtained the fertility treatments in Mexico and returned to California, presenting herself at Kaiser Hospital for delivery.
They’re trying to find out if her care has all been done with public assistance. File this under your tax dollars at work. (FYI, it’s estimated the State of California is due to receive the most money from the economic stimulus package currently in the Senate — some 64 Billion dollars)
January 31st, 2009 at 9:55 am
She’s kind of young to have had seven children, isn’t she? Are they all hers by birth? Any stepkids? There was some hot discussion about this at a local news outlet – someone said the husband is a civilian contracted in Iraq – I don’t know, don’t care. My paternal grandfather was one of 15, my maternal grandfather one of 13 – Nothing wrong with large families.
My hat is off to this woman for refusing to go through “selective reduction” – a fancy name for an abortion.
Also, I’d a heck lot rather my tax money going to help this family out than going to Planned Parenthood here or abroad to pay for abortions – through the revocation of the Mexico City rule or the UN Family Planning program.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I hope I’m wrong, but it crossed my mind that perhaps these children were conceived in order to be sold.
Either way, a very sad situation for all of them.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:18 am
So Fox News is reporting that the mother is divorced, that she’s had all her kids via in vitro, and that she went through this process because she didn’t want the frozen embryos to be destroyed. So where is the real issue of this story? A woman obsessed with having kids? or the unanswered moral and ethical issues of men playing God (in vitro fertilization)?
The judgment of the mother is certainly questionable. But there can be no question that the creation of multitudes of in vitro babies, only to destroy them later, is evil.
I would suggest that motherhood, precious as it is, is not an inalienable right, that achieving pregnancy at any cost must inevitably lead, somewhere down the pike, to some sort of crisis like this.
However, instead of challenging the ethical basis of in vitro fertilization, everyone is attacking the woman. I think we’ve got it backwards.