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Show Page 10 0 R f M f I M f S thursday, February 10, 20O9 NEWS, STORIES AMD EVENTS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD A single, unemployed California woman recently gave birth to octuplets conceived through fertility f treatments. She also has six other children conceived through costly in vitro procedures. What are your : thoughts? Did her doctors act ethically in implanting multiple embryos in a 33-year-old woman who already had six children? Should taxpayers be left with burden to support her 14 children, whose medical delivery -costs alone last month for the octuplets were more than $1 mjllion? I 1 K l til 7- ''tt'r f.".i ifa.Ttiiitriii--fe'.Tfi-&it fin W !J J V r) n . i ill "No, I think they the doc-torsj doc-torsj should be prosecuted for it. The ethics committee is looking at it. She has six other kids on food stamps? How is she going to pay for day care? She's never going to work . I think the doctor should be held accountable. Make him pay the child support." I Cvnlhiu Muri'tm 3e iifk i rfi?)i "I guess I'd say is wasn't the doctors' decision. I question where she got the funds (for the treatments). It's from our welfare dollars. Is that a hole in the welfare system? Again there's something amiss with the taxpayers paying for that. If she wants to get a job ..." tRuthBurt "My own opinion is that 1 think it's strange she would want 14 kids without a family. fam-ily. Obviously it's appropriate I feel that children should be raised in a home with a father and mother. I do feel that 14 kids in a home without a father and living with her parents you should have a way to support them and provide an emotionally and physically stable home." i Surah Briggs "How did she afford it (the fertilization treatments? Ridiculous. Ri-diculous. They the doctors should make sure they do this with a family. That's what 1 thought the idea was. The babies are innocent children. 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I Jonathan Tingey "She's irresponsible. No, it's not ethical because he the fertility doctor has done the same thing in Louisiana where a woman had octuplets. 1 think he's being investigated. Yeah it's unfair to the taxpayers. tax-payers. That's why she's being investigated. It's selfishness." I Joann Campbell 'In vitro is a really bad idea especially for couples that already al-ready have a good amount of children. I've seen couples use these and end tip with more than twins. Unethical? No. 1 think the doctors were doing their job and the parents wanted want-ed the procedure done. Personally, Person-ally, yes, I think government should help out a family in need. My own family had help for many years. At the same time, I don't think taxpayers should have that burden of supporting her 14 children." I Ryan Morris "No. 1 don't think the doctors doc-tors acted unethically. 1 think it was a fluke situation. She thought of the embryos as living and that they should have a life. They do this all the time take multiple em- bryos, because some of them don't make it. How was she supposed to choose between them? To critique her and her doctors is stupid and after the fact. What's the point? I think everybody has a different set of circumstances." I Amanda Olser t . j -- - . - i L2 k, - w - V V f-" i- ALL OF OUR NEW fcrentt;; machines are SWtfin SPECIALLY PRICED ' fi.UvU FOR THIS EVENT! ; f p--vr tod r ALL PRICES .; : INCLUDE SALES TAXI "It concerns me that she is single and that the doctors would implant that many unfertilized un-fertilized eggs in her. If you can take care of your children, great. Yes, I think the doctors acted unethically. 1 don't think it's Very fair. People who have children we have children and we dori't have medical insurance in-surance we pay for that ourselves, our-selves, out of our own pockets. It's one thing wanting a child, but it just seems to come down to if can she take care of that many children? That should be a responsible part of planning." I Mirissa Rowley I think it s a little crazy , being single and unemployed. If she were single and had someone to help her care for , the children and could afford It herself, that would be another thing. I do feel the doctors acted unethically, front what t heard on the news, they fertility specialists are not supposed to implant more than two embryos in a woman her ; age. It's not fair or appropri-" ; ate for taxpayers to pay for , ' her children. If you can afford 14 children, great, I'm all fitf-it? but not at the expense of sbttie one else." I Karyn t riprj 12 MONTHS-NO MONTHS-NO INTEREST $1I9Q Jl. A . Jt. . - FINANCING ON Qlllll t PI!Rf!HRC nVTR C HlfiiV. . 51UUUI ZXmn I J feD I mmm . .i I all- m Ml S SEES orem $ pleasant grove afpfne uVTe" FDtC Own a small business? Ready to start one? Discover why so many Utah County businesses prefer Western Community Bank. With every capability Your Highness may need, we stand ready to serve. 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