Weekly News Roundup: The Ethics of Eight Babies

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• Do humans have reproductive limits? And if not physical, how about ethical?

• Scientists give a big thumbs up to Obama’s environmental plan.

• A handy list of all the biggest “global cooling” hacks, now in bar graph form.

• Poor Tesla. The bad news just keeps on comin’.

• A universal flu vaccine nears completion—but will we have the cash to distribute it?

• Finally, some sliding profits news to be happy about. Oh no wait, never mind.

• Senate decides (thank goodness) that children and health insurance are two things that should really continue to go together.

January 30th, 2009 Tags: , , ,
by Melissa Lafsky in Climate Change, Energy, Health Care | 88 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

88 Responses to “Weekly News Roundup: The Ethics of Eight Babies”

  1. 1.   chris H Says:

    the question should be “should there be reproductive limits” my opinion without question YES. the woman in question had 8 (EIGHT!!) kids to start off with, then she Had to take fertilization drugs and ended up with 6 more. i hope she has the money to raise them on her own. but she still lives with her mom who help take care of now 14 kids, probably will need state assistance (welfare) to raise em. hasn’t it been realized by now that smaller families is easier on your wallet and on society (health care, education, food, clothing, energy, etc). day by day i am loosing hope for humanity and the well being of the earth with stories like these. and dont get me started on the duggar family who now have 18 kids

    The Earth is overpopulated enough, do you have to add another 14 kids to the problem. 1000’s of critically endangered species and people in America, or the “developed world” keep have litters and huge families. with out being accused of being a Nazi when people like myself bring up the question “where do we draw the line? and not the question should we draw a line, A LINE NEEDS TO BE DRAWN. aside form the whole human rights issue, does anyone have the right to place such a burden (ecological, economical) on society. watch natgeo’s Human Footprint to see how much the average american uses

    call me a fascist if thats what i sound like to you. but i see a big picture of the earth and Its needs over ours, without the earth theres no people. our population is no longer kept in check by natural forces. is it ethical to have 8 babies, even if there done that normal one at a time way. NO, in todays world why do poeple need such big families.

    6.75 BILLION AND COUNTING

  2. 2.   Christine Says:

    I don’t see anything wrong with have 20 babies if you want 20 babies. However, I do not see how it is healthy or good for your body to do so with fertility drugs. The body is not designed to carry 6+ babies at a time. When we are artificially altering our body to do something that our body naturally won’t do, we are asking for problems.

    This works the other way too. When we chemically alter our body to not do something our body naturally does (i.e. hormonal birth control), we are asking for problems in our body.

  3. 3.   chris H Says:

    I wanted to add one more thing to this blog article, its a comment from the article linked above by a user named amgpac

    “This act is one of bold faced social irresponsibility. The culprits are not only the parents, but especially the medical personnel involved with this “criminal’s” fertility treatments.

    If we’re to see a peaceful tomorrow, we need to alter our concept of responsibile procreation. It’s no longer acceptable to have only as many offspring as we can monitarily afford, but we must include consideration of what this planet can afford and what we can afford emotionally, and personally. It’s also time to wipe away the stigma of choosing to forego parenthood, and look upon that choice as a legitimate one. It will never cease to make me cringe when I hear audiences applaud the couple that proudly admits to “breeding” 6, 8, 10, 12 children. The same audience gasps at the couple that responsibly chooses to have only one child or those who decide to forego parenthood altogether. Perhaps thing need to be reversed.”

  4. 4.   Uncle Al Says:

    Single mother, 6 kids already, embryo implantation of eight more, then… WHAMMO!. Estimated (taxpayer!) minimum cost of initial medical care, $4-6 million. Instead allocate science, math, engineering, and computer $10K/annum scholarships. The cost of getting those eight worthless lumps of flesh plus their whelpmistress out of Kaiser/Bellflower would generate 150 quality BS degrees. Do you have a problem with diversity?

  5. 5.   modernrocko Says:

    Humans do not need to breed litters of progeny. It’s a waste of money and takes an outrageous toll on the parents, the community, and the economy. Countries which have limitations on the number of children parents are allowed to create have it right.

    If we don’t get our population boom out of control, we’re going to run out of resources to care for now only the individual, but the species as a whole.

    Stop having children.

  6. 6.   Angela Says:

    As a woman, I just can’t fathom having that many kids! My father is one of eleven children, but he was born in a different cultural context. He was born while the effects of the Great Depression were still lingering in rural North Carolina, and his parents were subsistence farmers. They needed the workers! (And birth control was not yet available). I know how much of a struggle it was for me to go to college, and scholarships covered most of my tuition and fees. But just finding the money to pay for the meal plan, books, etc. was a challenge- for one person. Multiply that by 14 and it just blows my mind.

    I’m all for a person’s right to make their own life choices, but there should be a limit. If indeed the mother and her children are receiving government assistance, then it was complete irresponsible from a fiscal standpoint for her to bring yet more children into the world. Even if she and her family are financially solvent and don’t need government aid, I also wonder about the environmental implications. If all couples had that many kids, then we’re screwed as a planet. Plus I like sleep, so one or two children will suffice.

  7. 7.   kah Says:

    once again we as taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for irresponsible parents. and wait- not parents- a single parent. For this irresponsible psychopathic woman – and her doctors- to bring 8 more children- after she already had 6- is outrageous into a world where everything- diapers, food, clothing- is outrageously expensive. and guess who is paying- us. Her doctors should be ashamed- why would they ever agree to this? She must be a whack job. Do a follow up when they are teenagers and see how she likes taking care of 14 children. Most of us can’t manage one or two.

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