The birth of a baby is a wonderful occasion. Although I haven't wanted any myself, I'm ecstatic for friends and family that have successfully conceived and carried a baby to term. I have friends and family who are fertility impaired. They're all in happy marriages and deserve to be parents. Some were eventually successful. Others were not.
Skip to the news story of the last couple of weeks. A 33 year-old unmarried, unemployed woman who already has 6 children and lives with her parents had 8 embryos implanted in vitro and gave birth to all of them. According to one report I read, the prenatal-care, births, and post-natal care of these children, pending their eventual release from the hospital, will already be 1.3 million dollars, to be borne by the taxpayers, of course. How's that for a jaw-dropper!? I am personally repulsed and incensed by this. This was done on purpose. The doctor who implanted these babies in this irresponsible woman should lose his license. He's no different from Dr. Mengele. The babies should be adopted to people who are able to support them and give them good homes. God cemented this woman's fallopian tubes shut for a reason, apparently, but science found a way around it. People have multiples implanted on purpose, it would seem. It's unhealthy both for the woman and the babies. They're usually low birth weight babies and prone to birth defects. I believe abortion is morally wrong because it is murder. When these women are told they should selectively abort some of these embryos, they say they don't want to play God. Well, excuse me, but how is implanting several fertilized eggs not also playing God? I would really love for some of you to comment. I agree with the Scriptures that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made (Psa. 139: 13-16), but human insanity never ceases to amaze me. Please, please, weigh in on this matter and tell me what YOUR take on this is.
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My friend Kel said:
I agree with you. That doctor should either lose his license or be shot. And what a selfish girl. She not only endangered the lives of her emryo implants/newborns, but her own life too. She was lucky they all lived. Now us taxpayers get to raise them....if she doesn't make a butt load of money off of them first. "I want a HUGE family" my ***. See ya on Oprah, honey.
This woman blames the fact that she's an only child that she wanted a big family. I can understand this, but to THIS extent just says that she loves herself so little that she's got to look for it from sources outside herself in forms (children) that should love her unconditionally for the rest of her life. I hope she gets counseling so she learns to love herself and have that and God's love be enough. If not, she's doomed.
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