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Grandma: Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids

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Grandma: Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.

"She told me that all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said it's because she got paid for it."

Others worried that she would be overwhelmed trying to raise so many children and would end up relying on public support.

What the hell is wrong with some people. Seriously how the hell can you raise 14 children alone?

This really sounds unethical to me. A doctor willing to do this for a woman who already has 6 children is disturbing.

There is no doubt in my mind that this woman will eventually, if she already isn't, use government money to live her life.
 
The most irritating part about this is that it pretty much guarantees another ****ing terrible reality tv show where she'll be talking about how Jesus really wanted her to **** out all these little critters.
 
The most irritating part about this is that it pretty much guarantees another ****ing terrible reality tv show where she'll be talking about how Jesus really wanted her to **** out all these little critters.

I can't wait to not watch it!

The fawning over these stupid people is getting old. It is not a great thing to have an ass ton of children you can't realistically give individual attention to.
 
I'm curious as to how she got paid for it!!
 
I can't wait to not watch it!

The fawning over these stupid people is getting old. It is not a great thing to have an ass ton of children you can't realistically give individual attention to.

"...I can`t wait to not watch it". :rofl My most humble full appology for the double post,The DP screen hung up...HONEST !
 
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Pitwolfy posted (I'm curious as to how she got paid for it!!)

I, on the other hand am curious as to how she or her family were able to afford the Fertility treatment, this type of treatment does not come cheap.

With reference to the Government paying for these children, yes this is what will happen.
However I somehow doubt that beyond the odd tut tut from anyone in the Obama administration, nothing much will happen.
I also wonder if various advertisers will be beating a path to her door with various offers.

I am not aware if this happened when 7 children were born in Houston a number of years ago?
 
Pitwolfy posted (I'm curious as to how she got paid for it!!)

I, on the other hand am curious as to how she or her family were able to afford the Fertility treatment, this type of treatment does not come cheap.

With reference to the Government paying for these children, yes this is what will happen.
However I somehow doubt that beyond the odd tut tut from anyone in the Obama administration, nothing much will happen.
I also wonder if various advertisers will be beating a path to her door with various offers.

I am not aware if this happened when 7 children were born in Houston a number of years ago?

I think the article implied that she was paid for the fertility treatments.

Its ridiculous that someone can have no real plan for success taking care of their children and she can pop them out like rabbits.
 
I really doubt tv shows are going to want to put a single mother of 14 on TV. Especially the channel that broadcasts the more or less wholesome John & Kate +8.
 
Well I don't want to lump all Doctors together, but this on was definitely not ethical, and must have been driven by greed and not common sense. I feel sorry for the grandparents. This woman can forget ever finding a man now.
 
-- However I somehow doubt that beyond the odd tut tut from anyone in the Obama administration, nothing much will happen --

If my time scales are correct, she will have been pregnant during a Bush administration.. and before that (haven't seen when the first 6 where conceived) possibly during a Clinton administration.

So, short of Obama personally cutting out her uterus or personally stopping her from receiving help to conceive more - what do you suggest?
 
The father of the babies is dancing and drinking of happiness because his childrens' future will be taken care by the government agencies...
 
So, short of Obama personally cutting out her uterus or personally stopping her from receiving help to conceive more - what do you suggest?

Well, according to several other posters on this forum, Obama believes in infanticide, so it may not be too late for these 8...
 
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The father of the babies is dancing and drinking of happiness because his childrens' future will be taken care by the government agencies...

The guy who is really dancing is her ex-husband for he cut his ties to her before she had any children.
 
The fact that there is no discussion about the lack of a father in the house is disturbing.
 
The fact that there is no discussion about the lack of a father in the house is disturbing.

Well, there's a grandfather in the house.
Of course, he's going back to Iraq to try to get some money to support these 14 kids.
There's a grandfather, a mother, and a grandmother.
I don't see what practical difference an additional adult could possibly make.
Even with four of them there, they'd still each only have two arms, so that's eight arms in all, and there's fourteen children, so that still wouldn't be enough.

Of course, perhaps if some of the other children are older, they can be of some practical assistance.
 
Let's not overlook that she already has an autistic son.
 
It really doesn't matter. It's her body, and therefore her right to have as many children as she wants and is capable of having, as well as to use any fertility drugs, aids, or treatments she is capable of affording or otherwise obtaining.

This is a right that very few (if any) other women care to exercise to this extent. That doesn't mean they don't have the right, simply because they don't choose to exercise it.

The fact that one woman (or two, if you count Michelle Duggar) chooses to exercise- to the fullest extent possible- her right to bear as many children as humanly possible, does not concern me overmuch, as it is a self-limiting right, and there are a finite, 2-digit number of offspring one woman can produce- with or without fertility aids and treatments- before she drops dead of gestational diabetes, toxemia, and hypertension, runs out of eggs and enters premature menopause (a common side effect of overuse of fertility drugs and procedures such as IVF, which remove multiple eggs from the ovaries), or simply ****s out her uterus and has to have it removed (this is called uterine prolapse and was common in the days when women routinely bore eight or ten children).

I think it's actually a pretty impressive feat, although not, of course, one that I'd be at all interested in replicating. Now let's see what she can do with all these children. Perhaps her parenting skills will prove equally as extraordinary as her progenerative capacity. Who knows?
There's nothing about having a handicapped child that makes one unfit to have more children- even many more, if that is one's desire.

We should all just be grateful that women, not men, are the ones who get to decide how many children will be born, since a man is theoretically capable of creating hundreds, perhaps a thousand, while a woman can only produce a dozen or possibly 20 at the absolute, outside max.

It's such a rare and exceptional occurrence when any woman actually does it that I don't see any point in fretting over it.
It happened, and it's her right.
And who knows, maybe she'll foil all these dire predictions and actually end up taking decent care of the poor little buggers. It's her right to try, anyway. They're hers. She made them.
 
It really doesn't matter. It's her body, and therefore her right to have as many children as she wants and is capable of having, as well as to use any fertility drugs, aids, or treatments she is capable of affording or otherwise obtaining.

And it's our duty to pay for them. The delivery alone cost about $3 million. She lives in the Los Angeles area, but I'm not sure whether she lives in the Los Angeles Unified School District boundaries, but if she does, then with their $25,000 per year cost of educating each child, her 14 children will require $350,000 per year of education costs, for 12 years, totaling $4,200,000. The lady is unemployed and living with her parents, so who will be paying for the medical care of the 14 children.

You see, she certainly has a right to control her own reproductive life, but her right to do so should stop when her choices impose costs on strangers. As the saying goes, you have the unfettered right to swing your fist, that is, until your fist intersects with my jaw, and at that point, your right to swing your fist no longer exists.
 
It really doesn't matter. It's her body, and therefore her right to have as many children as she wants and is capable of having, as well as to use any fertility drugs, aids, or treatments she is capable of affording or otherwise obtaining.

This is a right that very few (if any) other women care to exercise to this extent. That doesn't mean they don't have the right, simply because they don't choose to exercise it.

Under what UN charter, treaty, accord, U.S. legal document, etc etc does it say that abortion and having kids at the expense of others is a right?
 
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She cannot maintain care for all these children, so eventually child services, by very virtue of the laws, will have to step in. Then those kids end up in foster homes. And who pays for that? Everyone else.

So while it is her choice to conceive, it is not her choice if it means every child she continues to has is going to be a blatant drain on the system. If she's an unfit mother, yet continues having kids, they will force her to get her tubes tied. It is one of the rare cases where the system will contradict a woman's right to choose, since clearly she is too incapable of making the right choice.
 
Grandma: Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids - Yahoo! News



What the hell is wrong with some people. Seriously how the hell can you raise 14 children alone?

This really sounds unethical to me. A doctor willing to do this for a woman who already has 6 children is disturbing.

There is no doubt in my mind that this woman will eventually, if she already isn't, use government money to live her life.

If they can afford to take care of the children on their own with no take payer help then they should be able to have as many children as they want. However from what I understand this woman can not afford to take car of those kids on her own. Doctors shouldn't be giving her in vitro fertilization until she can show several pay stubs that says she can support this many children on her own.
 
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