more about the octuplet case

Did you all hear that that mother of octuplets already has six other children? I haven't seen any mention of father or fathers, of course, since everyone (including the media) likes to blame mothers for everything. But woooooow. Six other kids. I'm not blaming her for obviously wanting a large family (except that is harsh on the environment). But man. Wow.

And I just read today that one of the grandparents confirmed that the woman had used IVF for the octuplets! Whaaaaaat?

I hate this story so much, honestly. As I wrote yesterday, it's feeding public misconceptions about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies...on so many levels. Including the following notions:

- All 'infertility' is repairable.
-Infertility is always the woman's fault.
-First you do Clomid, which will give you high-order multiples. If Clomid doesn't work, you move on to IVF, which will give you even higher-order multiples, since your RE will 'implant' 12 'eggs.'
-Related to above point, in case you didn't get it already: All women who do ART have high-order multiples.
-All women want high-order multiples.
-All infertility doctors want their patients to have high-order multiples.
-All said high-order multiples are premature but healthy.
-Cost? What cost? None of this costs that much. I mean, if you want/need ART, it's just something you go and do. And so what if you end up with a litter? The hospital will take care of them, and that doesn't cost much.
-Everybody lives happily ever after, mommy stays home and breastfeeds the litter, daddy goes to work, and everyone's in their rightful and correct and appropriate place. (And welfare hasn't been tapped yet, but wait until the kids start on solids...)