Word: Octomom’s fertile tentacles reach Georgia
March 8, 2009 at 12:07 pm by Thomas Wheatley in Word/Found
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State lawmakers are fearing another Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, the California single mom who recently birthed octuplets — as well as six other children — through in-vitro fertilization. As a result, legislators have introduced a controversial bill regulating fertility treatments. It reportedly won’t go anywhere this session.
“The taxpayers are going to have to fund the 14 children [Nadya Suleman] has. I don’t want that to happen in Georgia.”
— Sen. Ralph Hudgens, R-Hull, in the March 3 Wall Street Journal.
“It’s the right of the person who has gone through this procedure to decide what they can do with those embryos, not their doctor, and certainly not the government.”
— Barbara Collura of Resolve, a national infertility association, in the March 3 WSJ.
“One crazy woman out of a population of 300 million. Can we say overkill?”
— A comment by “grouse” in response to a March 4 Augusta Chronicle article.
(Courtesy Senate Press Office)
March 8th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Pols are writing “monkey” laws, no surprise at “dumbass” laws like this one.
March 8th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Don’t children have a right to a good well adjusted childhood? I agree its overkill but I can see an argument for the child’s sake.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
the good news is Victor Munoz is likely to profit more off of this fiasco than Nadya Suleman, as his lawyers are going to shred through that confidentiality agreement tomorrow and then we will get ALL THE DIRT! Yay!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1544901/nadya_suleman_octomom_empire_crumbling.html?singlepage=true&cat=25
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