A debate is ensuing since the birth of eight babies to a woman in Los Angeles. Some ethicists believe doctors are obligated to monitor women receiving fertility treatments to ensure that only a limited number of eggs are fertilized. And if more are fertilized, they should urge patients to consider selective reduction. They point to the high-risk of the pregnancy on the woman and the babies, the long-term developmental problems with the babies and the high cost of money and personnel to deliver them.
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Cindy Billhartz Gregorian is a features reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has reported for the Healthy & Fit section since its first issue. She's a distance runner with seven marathons under her belt. 
“…[with this many] [usually] physical and psychological problems.”
W suggestion ethicists leave, are the IVF specialists to remain? Um the only ethicist I know began her program in mathematical logic. After qualifiers, it has still been years. No certificate yet.
Are we sure IVF-ers aren’t one of the more HMO-gouging types of
*doctor?* ??? I can only guess.
Mmm, who has been holding life began at birth? Maybe we need more study — of tradition(s)
How about $ ? . Though I am not a GOP I don’t mind asking it to be on the table:is it maybe the *public” paying these 40+ doctors for delivery efforts?
I’ve lived in E.L.A. Those people are already 1/2 in a ghetto. Can’t feature real happy, glowing people coming from that household. Oh and this mother who has never wanted a dh, from a backwater college, plans becoming a COUNSELOR ?
True the AB-ers don’t like people having sex. LOL
There IS something special and moving about it; I ought not be logical about every bit of this. However NASA activity is wondrous also. !!!-> If NASA and other world-spacers would do less to the environment PLUS spend less $, then our g’g'g’g'grandchildren would have a better chance. / My 2%; anyway a demonstration how pretty isn’t necessarily all-round healthy
Grandma has it figured out, from what words of hers I’ve heard. Godspeed to you, ma’am.
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it’s pretty amazing that all eight of those babies survived the birthing process
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In vitro fertilization means fertilized eggs that don\’t get implanted and die (human life, for the anti-ABers); in vitro fertilization means a human makes a choice to implant embryos (human life), some of which may not take or make not survive (some comfortably choose to call this \”God\’s will,\” even though God\’s will was helped along by a human physician and a CHOOSING mother). In vitro fertilization can even lead to outright abortion, if the mother cannot carry all the implanted embryos she freely chose to have.
All these risks are inherent in IVF. Moms have to realize that they may achieve their child by destroying an uncounted number of fertlized eggs, multiple-cell embryos, or even well-developed fetuses.
I don\’t know why the anti-ABers aren\’t picketing IVF clinics. Lots of human life gets flushed away there. Guess it\’s not abortion they don\’t like, just people having sex.
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I doubt that any fertility doctors do not encourage their patients to abort some of the fetuses, but it’s ultimately the parents’ choice and should remain so. It’s not the government’s choice, nor should the choice reside with people who consider themselves ethicists.
Not everyone believes that it is ethical to abort. Every pregnancy involves risk. It’s not limited to multiples or even women who do not take care of themselves.
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Oh so because the parents decided to take the risk of doing something immoral the precious babies must be murdered.Aren’t there anyone humans with morals anymore?I mean you all act like “hey it’s ok let’s just slaughter un born humans” We accidently got too many.hahahahaha Oh darn now what? WWJD???
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