Being an invetro Mom, this woman's story intrigued me to say the least. (if you haven't read it, click here). But not for the reasons you might think. I don't understand why a single mother of 6 children living with her parents, would decided to seek infertility treatment...again, nor do I understand her choice to implant 8 fertilized eggs back into her uterus, but that's just it, it was HER choice."All week long, the media has reported on the health risks of having higher-order multiples, but few have directly addressed what the debate really comes down to: who gets to decide what a woman does with her own body. Limiting the number of embryos a woman can carry at a time brings up the same ethical issues as abortion, but it's easier and more comfortable to use the term "selective reduction" and make jokes about breastfeeding eight babies than get into a debate on choice."
When Rob and I went through this process, we were given options. We both believe that life begins at conception. If more eggs fertilized than we were ready to implant at that time, we would have frozen them to implant at a later date. Luckily, we didn't have to make that choice, but we did implant more than 2 eggs. Madison turned out to be the best of 3 eggs, but Rob and I both made the decision when they were implanted that we would be ok with triplets (looking back now, I was completely CRAZY to think I could have handled three!!)
But the point is this, it was OUR choice what to do with our eggs...our babies. The doctors advised, but when it came down to the dotted line, we got to choose how many eggs to implant. We made the choice that was right for our life and what we wanted. No one else should have that right -- not the doctors or the government.
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