Thursday, February 6, 2014

Octomom and ethics

  • Non fiction article

           I recently read an article about octuplets, and it got me thinking about morals. Octuplets can happen when an ovum continues to split, when a female produces an abnormal amount of eggs per month, or via in vitro fertilization. For Octo-mom, or Nadya Suleman, it was in vitro fertilization. My best guess would be that Suleman did not plan on having eight children at once, but her doctor set her up to have quite a few. In in vitro fertilization the mother can chose how many eggs she wants fertilized, usually toe or three, in the hopes one will make it. However this doctor fertilized at least eight eggs, in my opinion, and unethical and unnatural amount. The human body is only supposed to have one baby, and she had eight.

        About ethics, what Suleman's doctor did was not illegal. Extremely unethical, yes, but not illegal. This makes me wonder if there should be laws put in place to prevent this from happening. A life is a beautiful thing, and Suleman brought eight new ones into the world, but how much will these lives be cared for? How much money does it take to send eight kids to college, at the same time? These babies were born premature, and because of that, they will most likely have health problems later in life. There are very few known cases of natural octuplets, proving that eight children at once is not natural. 

        I don't mean to sound like an awful person, I just think that these are lives that probably aren't going to get the care and love they need. My cousins are triplets and their mother is insane with keeping up with them, imagine if you added five more to the lot. I'm not blaming this on Suleman, however I find her extremely irresponsible, as she already had six children, and having eight more would result in fourteen. When I first heard about this I was 
    surprised she qualified for in vitro. All in all, I think that there are some very mixed up thoughts about what is ethical when it comes to pushing the boundaries of nature. 

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