So everyone’s talking about Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born in California.  I had absolutely no plans to mention this on Social Tools. It’s not the kind of topic we’d normally cover here, but this topic came up at the dinner party I attended on Saturday night and the conversation got fairly heated.

(I also just finished reading a piece by Bonnie Fuller called, “Help! Someone Save the Octuplets from Their Mom.”  Read it. It’s good.  It’s what reminded me of the dinner party conversation and spurred me to write this.)

One member of the party - a woman, a doctor - thought it was morally reprehensible for the fertility doctor to implant all of those embryos in a woman who already had six children at home. I happened to agree because of the living situation of the pre-existing family: 6 children and 3 adults living in a 3 bedroom house.  (more…)