Responsibility

Nadya Suleman, 33, an unwed mother of six children ages 2 through 7, gave birth to octuplets last week. All eight children were implanted embryos from the process of in vitro fertilization. The grandmother currently is watching the six children in the home, and she has informed the new mother she will be gone once she gets home.

Fundamentally as a Christian, I am against abortion; as such this is a touchy subject matter in regard to what should have happened with the woman’s leftover embryos. This mother has done nothing short of completely insuring she will depend on government intervention for the duration of the children’s lives. She will rely on every benefit unknown to the American public for the simple sustenance of the children.

Where was the responsibility of not only her, but the physicians and nurses who agreed to implant that many babies in an obviously disturbed woman? Child Protective Services should have taken control of the situation from the beginning, starting with this woman’s fascination of bearing children as a young teenager.

Where was the common sense the grandmother is now willing to exhibit? What does anyone know concerning this woman’s father? Suleman is not a run of the mill baby machine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in child and adolescent development from Cal State Fullerton and is working toward a master’s degree in counseling. Would you want her counseling your daughter on the aspects of child birth?

In this case, the doctor(s) should be held partially responsible for allowing this woman to conceive another eight children. In closing, at least now she can field any major sports team with the requisite number of players needed.