Monday Teeny Poll
By Glinda
Last week I wanted to know how you would react if Clinton and Stacy from “What Not to Wear” came for you. Thirty five percent of you would be thrilled, twenty percent would dread the bob haircut coming your way, and twenty five percent would want to kill their friends, but go on the show anyway.
Today, I HAVE to ask you about the woman who gave birth to octuplets last week.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
You need a 3rd option: it is not my place to judge, but I just can’t help it and I judge harshly.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Exactly. I feel bad for judging, but holy crow, lady…she already HAD six kids, so what the hell was she doing having IVF? As well, she’s single and living with her parents, so that just seems like one hell of a burden to be placing on them, doesn’t it?
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
No, if you judge, you just have to come out and admit that you are judging!
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I not only judge her, but the doctor who implanted 8 embryos in a woman who already has six kids and cannot afford to take care of them. It is becoming more evident that this woman has some mental issues and was not an ideal candidate.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am
The mother I don’t feel right in judging, there are some serious mental/emotional issues going on.
The fertility doctor, however, I judge extremely harshly. He or she is devoid of any ethics. Even if she had lived to the doctor, you don’t implant that many embryos.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am
opps, change lived to lied.
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 pm
If she is not doing this on the taxpayer dime, then she is doing it on regular insurance. Either way, I pay, either through higher taxes or higher premiums.
Wasn’t her excuse that she didn’t want the embryos to go to waste? There is a two-year waiting list at the local fertility clinic for donor embryos. If she really wanted to give life to these embryos, she could have given them to an infertile couple.
Yeah, I judge her. I think she’s doing it for the money. Hence the whole no-interview thing at the beginning and now the demands for $$ for interviews. What a nutcase. Poor kids.
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
The thing that bothers me the most is that she’s not married.
February 4th, 2009 at 6:46 am
@ class factotum: in fact, she’s doing it on her parent’s backs. They declared bankruptcy just eleven months ago, and it is believed that they paid cash/cheque/credit card for the fertility treatments. Her mother sought professional counselling to cope with the strain of having a daughter addicted to giving birth (the counsel was to throw the daughter out, to which the mother replied, “what can you do? She’s a grown woman” and let her stay). And her father has compared living with his family to living in Hell, and is preparing to move to Iraq to get away from them.
Kiri8, would YOU marry her? She’s obviously as nutty as a Toll House Cookie.
February 4th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Raincoaster, are the parents paying the medical bills for the babies? I can see perhaps that they might have paid the implantation fees (although that would have been a couple of months after declaring bankruptcy — maybe they paid in advance and then declared?), but who is paying the neo-natal bills now? Again, I suspect that burden is falling on the taxpayer (as will any special ed needed in the future — aren’t two of the McCoughy sept. retarded?).
Also, if the parents were bothered enough by their daughter’s problem to see a counselor, why on earth did they pay for more kids? Not attacking you, just wondering about the sanity/financial savvy of the parents!
February 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
You and I are as of one mind re: insanity/financial savvy of parents. That’s JUST the kind of DNA we want to see replicated.
From what I can tell, the woman herself undertook the costs of implantation, etc, and since she is chronically unemployed, her parents actually did the paying. It cost them their last house, and it looks like the father is going to go back to Iraq to make some quick, much needed $.