I’ve been ruminating on the latest mom to let loose a litter recently giving birth to eight babies.

Guaranteeing her infamy in webbish ‘blog circles everywhere, including the special snarky tag of octupussy, gaining her unwanted negative attention, with a soupcon of intelligent discussion, Nadya Suleman already had six kids. Weirdly, since I didn’t think it was that easy to get the medical hook up, all 14 of the spawn were from in vitro.

Of course, like any good American, I could shit on Nadya all day long about her being on various kinds of dole and not being able to afford her private breeding farm. But, my hate ain’t really for her. I figure there’s some stuff in her head I just don’t get at all, and I suspect requires a crack team of mental health professionals to sort.

I also have mixed feelings about the various charges that the mountains of criticism heaped upon her have to do with the classist, racist, anti-choice and sexist society in which we al stroll through our days. I don’t buy the extreme comments on the hypersensitive left that suggest as a brunette mom was being treated like any disrespected brown person. But, I can see where all sorts of shitty comments on all sort of ‘blogs and news sites by all sorts of shitty people have shitty racist, sexist, classist slants. And, to me, choice, of which I am extremely pro, is a legal construct, like no one should legislate that we can’t (or we must). That isn’t the same as saying it’s always good to have babies or always good to abort before it goes too far.

Right now, though, I’m not interesting in hating on Nadya. Nope, I hate this guy.

It’s the Beverly Hills fertility doc, who apparently sucks at his job, and who apparently stepped in with a “sure I’ll do it,” after some legit doctor told Nadya a big “no” on his doing the procedure.

I figure it this way. We are not actually as a group, you know society, up for making these kind of ethical decisions. How the fuck did fertility treatments ever come to be such an unalienable right? One thing that bugs me is a whole slew of folks say, including this chick, imply that they go for the multiple birth load of eggs, because the alternate would be throwing them away and that’s somehow a problem, ’cause they have that supposed sacred baby potential.

Here’s a fucking awesome idea. If you are so moral that you can’t fathom killing the extra embryos that result from in vitro, they you shouldn’t be mucking about with that kind of voodoo.

Seriously. IVF loads up a lot of eggs. That’s how the procedure works. And to prevent worse things than not having a baby, the process is meant to involve letting some of the eggs die or stay in the refrigerator. A few more embryos are best stopped when one takes hold. All of that is part of how the shooting match works.

Our bodies aren’t engineered for more than a couple puppies at most at once. Multiple births can fuck a woman up, what with all them heads smashing up your nerves and arteries and all. The only way the scientists have around that is getting rid of the extra.

If it bugs you, don’t go through it. Simple. Litters need not be born and ethical decisions of hand-wringing, god-invoking proportion can be avoided.

Christians don’t let Christians make embryos.

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