My new poll is about a very popular current topic--"Octomom"
If you aren't up to date on the story please click here. To sum it up, a single woman with six kids recently had eight more after going through in vitro fertilization.
I have been unable to form a solid opinion on this whole situation. So here's a rambling list of my thoughts and concerns:
- I don't like this woman's decision to have 14 children on her own
- However, I don't like the idea that the law, government, or any agency would ever have the authority to restrict reproductive rights of individuals (can anyone say China?)
- I am concerned about how she will pay for the immense cost of these children--reports are she was already on welfare--are we willing to help her pay for her decision to have a family of this size?
- It also concerns me moving into the future if the US goes the route of universal health care. Wouldn't the government be forced to allow and forbid certain activities (i.e. if water was free wouldn't the government have to regulate how much we could use?)
- I hate to see the disregarding of importance of fatherhood. It always bothers me a little when single women decide they want to be a mother. Don't children deserve a mom and a dad? Or do we buy the prevailing thought in this culture that moms and dads don't have anything unique to bring to the parenting table?
3 comments:
Your dead on. Octomom (love the name, by the way) is a mixed bag. She made the right decision on what to do when she found out that she was having eight, but her decision to do it all alone is silly at best.
i think she is borderline nuts. a sane person would think about the situation's effect on the kids but she is soley focused on "wanting a big family". well, she got what she wanted. now she needs to step up and be responsible and quit pimping herself and her kids out to the media for handouts. i don't think she should've been forbidden to have these kids and i don't think it is appropriate to question her decision not to "selectively reduce" the babies once they were formed. someday these kids will hear about all this hoopla and it would be horrible to hear your mother say that she should've killed a few of you off. what's done is done. there is no possible way she can raise these kids on her own (even daycare standards wouldn't allow one person to care for 14 children!!!) and she seemed grossly unprepared for the reality of this. she knew she was having eight children and made no preparations whatsoever. makes me seriously question at the very least her judgement but mainly her sanity and grip on reality. i truly think that we will soon hear that child services have taken these kids away from her, and no mother wants that.
I voted for the first choice, but none of the choices specifically speak to what I feel. I mean, I hope to have a big family some day, but I want to be able to support them as well. I don't think necessarily some women shouldn't be allowed to be implanted with 6(?) embryos (I don't know why they'd want to, but still), if there is sufficient proof that they will be able to give fair and equal opportunities to all those children throughout their lives.
Obviously, somebody should've stepped in and called them out on the insanity of the situation. I think that it's selfish to bring so many new lives into the world when it's unclear if you can pay for them. Especially since she is 1.)single and 2.)unemployed. ALSO, it's selfish to bring them into the world when there are still starving children in other countries that want to be fed and clothed. Why not reach out to them instead of adding to the problem?
What kind of precedence does that set?
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