After listening to a local talk radio program, I reported here that Nadya Suleman had gone to a fertility clinic in Mexico. That is not true, and I will not listen to that local show again, because I think its host has a thing against Mexicans, and allows himself to report as fact people's biases against Mexicans.
Nadya's doctor is in Beverly Hills. The Medical Board of California is looking into the case. It is true that she is receiving assistance from both the federal government and California for her other six children. Three of her first six children are disabled, and the federal government pays their grandmother to take care of them. She says she is exhausted taking care of the first six children. The grandparents have a three bedroom house where Nadya plans to return with her newest eight children.
Kaiser Permanente has asked California's Medi-Cal program to pay for the hundreds of thousands of dollars it has cost to care for the eight babies still in the hospital. Nadya was expecting no more than twins, although this doctor commonly placed high numbers of embryos in in-vitro fertilization.
Bill O'Reilly is recommending that California remove the children and move for a civil trial to terminate Nadya's parental rights, so that the babies can each go to permanent homes via adoption. What do you think?
2 comments:
This story has more twists and turns than the normal one. I'm really not sure about taking the children...however, it's obvious she can't take care of them and there are so many deserving couples who want children. I guess in an ideal situation she would give them up for adoption. I'm leaning toward take them away although I'm whincing as I write it.
If SHE decides to give them up, that's one thing. No different than a young mother of a single baby offering up her child for adoption because she can't care for him/her.
But if they start taking her kids against her will...it's a damn slippery slope. There was a time in this country when many a widow raised this many kids (my great-grandmother was one...13 kids...granted, they were staggered).
I think it's more a case that we're playing God with these fertility treatments. It's not necessarily the fault of the woman...it's the fault of society deciding to leave God out of these decisions.
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