Myself and thousands of other women suffer from infertility and will and have gone through a lot to have children. Financially, emotionally, physically. It's a lot. We are trying to get insurance companies to pay for at least one IVF procedure when a medical problem is inhibiting a couple from getting pregnant. Well, this lady is certainly not helping the cause. Nor her doctor. The good thing is the media is recognizing this. There are many people opposed to artificial insemination and this is not helping those of us that agree with it!
This woman had 6 kids already. 3 disabled. Are you kidding me? It's basically child abuse to bring 8 MORE KIDS into this. What kind of doctor would do this? I read an article today that he has one of the worst success rates, which is probably why he thought he had to put so many embryos back in.
She was on food stamps. How did she pay for all of this? If I find out that insurance paid for this and I couldn't get ANY of mine covered.... ARGH!
I don't even know what else to say except those poor children.
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I read that she had won $165,000 in a settlement when she was hurt in some kind of riot years ago, and thats how she paid for her IVFs. Apparently she had some plastic surgery too because her nose and lips are TOTALLY different from earlier pictures I've seen of her online.
She and her doctor are giving IVF a bad name and I hate that! Hopefully most people recognize that this situation is NOT the norm.
Those poor kids. All 14 of them. =(
Well, the ASRM (American Society for Reproductive Medicine) is now looking into the ethics surrounding this particular doctor in this case. Good for them! I hope that this doctor is not allowed to profit and benefit from doing something that seems to many of us to be so ethically wrong!
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