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New Octuplets Were Leftover IVF Embryos, Mom Faces Anger for not Aborting
LifeSiteNews ^ | February 3, 2009 | Kathleen Gilbert

Posted on 02/04/2009 1:02:18 PM PST by MountainLoop

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1 posted on 02/04/2009 1:02:18 PM PST by MountainLoop
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To: MountainLoop

And now she’s got two publicists and is fishing around for media and book deals.


2 posted on 02/04/2009 1:03:52 PM PST by PC99
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To: MountainLoop

sorry but this woman is psycho and the doctors that did this knowing that she already had 6 kids with out a father should have their med license revoked.


3 posted on 02/04/2009 1:04:24 PM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: MountainLoop

Where did she get the money for all of this? I know it sure isn’t cheap.


4 posted on 02/04/2009 1:04:38 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: Badeye

Got a mirror?


5 posted on 02/04/2009 1:05:53 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: MountainLoop

“According to the grandmother of octuplets born in California last week, rather than allow her leftover frozen embryos to be destroyed, dissected in a laboratory, or frozen indefinitely, their mother chose to give them a chance at life by implanting them in her womb.”

Are those violins I’m hearing?


6 posted on 02/04/2009 1:05:55 PM PST by Kimberly GG (Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda been HUNTER.)
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To: MountainLoop

Let’s see..already the mother of 6, no husband...sure why not implant another 8? Someone should go to a mental institution after a sterization procedure, someone should lose their medical license and both even face jail for perpetrating such a crime on society.


7 posted on 02/04/2009 1:07:00 PM PST by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: massgopguy

‘Got a mirror?’

I had to think about this for thirty seconds...you gotta be kidding me, right?

Tax money?


8 posted on 02/04/2009 1:07:16 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: MountainLoop

I’m sure LSN is ready to pay for these children. Right?


9 posted on 02/04/2009 1:07:17 PM PST by gracesdad
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To: MountainLoop

Once pregnant, she should not have aborted.

She already had six kids. She shouldn’t have been able to find a clinic that would impregnate her.

I fault her. I also fault the people who made this possible for her.


10 posted on 02/04/2009 1:07:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
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To: massgopguy

This type of procedure is voluntary and costs lots of money...I don’t think there’s any way it could have come out of taxpayers pockets. I’ll bet now that they are born we are paying billions for their care...but SOME ONE paid for these procedures.


11 posted on 02/04/2009 1:08:18 PM PST by Kimberly GG (Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda been HUNTER.)
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To: Badeye

You and I are in part the sugar daddies for this woman.

We may not like it, but that’s the sad fact.


12 posted on 02/04/2009 1:08:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
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To: MountainLoop

From a mercenary standpoint, she could have probably sold the embryos to infertile couples, thereby ensuring they would be full term and presumably healthy babies and making some money so she could support herself.


13 posted on 02/04/2009 1:08:52 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: MountainLoop

I’ve got a lot of problems with the title to this article. Not aborting? People are “angry” that she had them implanted in the first place. There’s no “aborting” to it. The doctor should pay her child support.


14 posted on 02/04/2009 1:08:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer
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To: DoughtyOne

No different than any other woman I run across...(chuckle)


15 posted on 02/04/2009 1:09:26 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

She had 6 kids, including a pair of 2 year old twins ?


16 posted on 02/04/2009 1:10:25 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Did she have the 8 embryos created after the 6 were already born?

If so, then you’re right, this is WRONG.

However, if the embryos already existed, or were part of the original “batch” that created the 6, this was the right thing to do, give them life.


17 posted on 02/04/2009 1:11:07 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Badeye
I had to think about this for thirty seconds...

The thought crossed your mind, didn't it, that you were the "donor"?

18 posted on 02/04/2009 1:11:54 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: MountainLoop

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, in vitro fertilization is very questionable. And she has to be a whacko to have this many babies, unmarried and without money, and then expect to sell her story to the highest bidder.

On the other hand, better to give the kids life than kill them, as these “angry” folks think she should have done. Of course the whole question would have been avoided if she hadn’t been messing around with in vitro fertilization in the first place.


19 posted on 02/04/2009 1:13:50 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Badeye
Where did she get the money for all of this? I know it sure isn’t cheap.

In one of the stories I've read on this, she apparently told her mother that she was getting PAID to do this. Maybe that was to get her mother off her back, I don't know. Maybe she was thinking of the tremendous payday she'd receive from the PR for this. Apparently she was right; look at all the networks chasing her for her story.

My hubby, SirKit was amused when I was reading some of the outrage from the medical folks for her not having 'reduced' the pregnancy by aborting several of the kids. He laughed because it is folks like that who created the problem. Those folks tend to be pro-choice, so why are they so angry about the decision she made, after all, THEY made it possible for her to make this choice.

20 posted on 02/04/2009 1:13:59 PM PST by SuziQ
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