Please Stop
Please stop discussing the mother in California who gave birth to octuplets as if her particular decisions and situations are representative of the majority of people who seek medical help for infertility.
Please stop discussing how many is too many. How many embryos. How many babies. How many births. Please stop unless you’ve rested with your feet in stirrups and watched while someone carefully moved little raindrops full of hope through a catheter and into your uterus. Please stop unless you’ve had to make a decision to carry multiples, or not. Please stop unless you can discuss the relevant details with an open heart, an educated mind and a desire to understand.
Please stop saying there needs to be additional regulation within the medical community to decide which patients have the right to receive care and treatment. Are you going to serve on that decision-making body, and if you are, please tell me what kind of litmus test I would have had to endure?
Please stop using this woman and her children to hold up a light and try to peer into the world of IVF. Her situation, her decisions, her out-of-the-norm case is so misrepresentative of the majority that if we all of a sudden shout too loud and induce knee-jerk regulations, the people you least intend to hurt will be the people you hurt the most.
The very reasons for which this case is being sensationalized are the very reasons it does not represent the world of infertility treatment.
“The very reasons for which this case is being sensationalized are the very reasons it does not represent the world of infertility treatment.” This is so true – sensationalism is our national religion.
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Amen! I am soooooooooo tired of hearing about it!
I hear ya, sista! It’s all over the news here as well!
Amen!!!! I don’t think we are the only ones sick and tired of it.
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Unfortunately, it’s the out-of-the-norm cases that always get the spotlight, probably because they are unusual. It’s sickening how our culture gloms onto these things and won’t let go. I often wonder if this stuff really sells or if it’s just what the gossip mills *think* we want to hear.
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It’s the workings of the talking heads and they make sure the “out of the norm” is brought before us and made to look like a problem someone should be dealing with. Please stop playing God and judging…….is what I’d like to tell a lot of those people.
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Amen! I’ve nothing more to add. You’ve said it all……perfectly as always. **muaaahh**
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Here! Here! it is so frustrating when these stories are all we hear about … it is insane. I agree, it needs to stop!
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Unfortunately it’s what sells. It gives people to grump about and do the ‘did you hear about . . . ‘
They have this habit of forgetting that there is real person behind the headlines and that those people have feelings.
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Tricia, thanks.
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Well, having or not having kids is really nobody else’s business, is it?
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It is a shocking case. I don’t think people are talking about it as if it was the norm, though. What shocked me was the lady’s mother’s comments to the media. They didn’t exactly put the best light on the situation. And I can’t say it didn’t make me a little angry to hear about the woman’s situation. I hope it’s not as bad as the mom made it out to be.
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I cannot even form a rational paragraph about what I am feeling about this. On a much smaller scale, we endured the opinions of complete stragers that, at best, were incredibly presumptious and at worst insensitive and hurtful. The thing that still bothers me the most is the complete disregard for how the chldren will feel as they are under the microscope of societal ignorance. They are not a freak show. Thanks for your post – it is right on the money.
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My Dear Tricia you know how narrow minded the general public can be and every one needs someone to talk about. They will talk it to death.Look at what they did to Anna Nicole and continue to do. It is no ones business that this woman had eight babys or how many she has at home. I know that this touches your heart to the root of it. Who has the right to make the decesion to abort babies out of her womb and tell her that she can only carry one or two, and then turn around and tell every one that it is wrong to have abortions that they are killing babies.People are hipacrits,you know that. I wish that I could wave a magic wand over all that have this problem and make it go away. The mediea can some times be an enemy as wel as a friend.
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Well-expressed.. and it sounds like you could use a warm hug.
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You make me very happy I have been too too busy at work and too tired at night to watch the news.
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Excellent post! And I so agree. I’ve got one blog “friend” who just won’t shut up about it! And it makes me mental. Why does the media have to exploit these situations so and why do some people have to act like it’s personally offensive to them?!
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Well said Tricia.
Oh well said, don’t get me started. She gives people with real infertility issues (myself included) a bad rap. She makes me shudder!
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Bravo! I agree completely.
May I add one more? Please stop dubbing details as fact because Fox News was citing a London Times article. Everyone should pray to whatever they believe in they are never in a situation the media and public dubs interesting enough to trample your privacy over.
I agree! I flip the channel when it comes on