Feb 06 2009
The Octuplet Mom
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I have to speak out on the octuplet Mom who now has a grand total of 14 children. It’s been reported that she has also had death threats from people who find it necessary to judge her.
Personally I do not really care. Although it is something I would never do nor could handle, the fact is, if she has the means and is capable of taking care of all her children who are we to judge? Live and let live and leave her be.
While we can offer opinions, judging her is not our business. Period. It’s no different than Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adopting dozens of kids so why no death threats or judging them? It just is not fair.
We should let the Mom live her life and do as she sees fit. Just my opinion.
I totally agree with you. We might or might not agree with her decisions, but who are we to judge her decisions?
Death threats to a mom of 14 is so uncalled for. If you don’t agree with her having that many children, why do these people think they are justified to give her death threats and having 14 children the possibility of losing their mom?
You are wrong> She doesn’t have the means - Taxpayers footed her bill ans she still doesn’t have a job . Her idea is to exploit them on the talk show circuit and let the media pay for them. So then people are justified to threaten because then they could sell that story to make monry. I do not advocate killing her or her children but she is being rewarded for bad descisions. Thw real debae should be why have we becoe a society that allows and rewards bad descisions. We are ableto judge those descisions becasue we paid for them
She’s the tip of the iceberg. Where’s the responsiblity of the doctors - why are they implanting any more than 2 embryos. Forget selective abortion - are you telling me that doctors can’t harvest egs then separate out 2 for fertilizing and dump the rest? That’s what the procedure should be. An unfertilized egg is just something a woman loses every month with her period. This process should be, by law, as natural as possible. At most two eggs of any number of eggs harvested are fertilized and the rest, unfertilized are flushed. No ethical dilemmas there! As far as the death threats. They are from extreme people - But extreme actions (ie her narcissitic determination to have exactly what she wants) lead to extreme reactions. She brought the death threats on herself. No one told her to not have a job. A back injury, sure, but bearing children was no problem. How many pregnant women complain of back pain? She can’t work but she can have kids despite the injury. Something fishy there. No one told her to have one, two, three, four, five and six kids let alone any more no matter how many came up last. Stop saying your not judging her. Do I judge her - if by that you mean I think she should be punished and die - for that is what judgement is - no, I don’t judge her. But I sure as hell think she is a mean and self centered person who never once thought of her children despite her professed love. None of her actions show any love for anybody but herself. I would not want to meet her, ever. And I pity her children one through fourteen!
It is not my place to sit in judgement on anyone but I do question
one’s own ability to care for eight infants adequately when there are already six children in the home, especially with no employment and a debiliting back problem. While one loves and wants children, sometimes that is not a rational choice but made to fill a need of our own and not in the best interests of a child. I remember once, in my
nursing practice, trying to talk about contraceptive health to a young
woman with multiple sex partners. She looked at me, in amazement, and said, “Oh, I don’t mind if I get pregnant again ( she had had
four high risk pregnancies in as many years ) - if I keep going, I’ll qualify for section 8 housing.”
I wish this woman and her children the best. I just do not want to see the children exploited.
Thanks to you all for reading and commenting.