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3 Feb 2009

Octuplets – plus six more???

Have you heard about the woman who recently had octuplets – 8 kids?

A California Woman recently bore eight chilren via invetro fertilization. The catch is, that she already has six other children – all born in the same manner!

Can she handle fourteen children?

Here’s the question: Can a single woman, who’s mother recentliy declared bankrupcy, take care of 14 children on her own? What role should the government play in this situation? Should she be allowed to have more children via invetro fertilization?

How would a classical republican government respond?

What about a government based on the natural rights philosophy?

Tags: Classical Republicanism, fertilization, government, Hobbes, Locke, Natural Rights, Octuplets

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 am by mrosman and is filed under Current Events. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

48 Responses to “Octuplets – plus six more???”

  1. Courtney says:
    02/05/2009 at 5:53 pm

    I think that the gov. should stay out of this situation..who are they to tell her how many kids she can have? i realize she’s probably not going to be able to afford all those childeren, and the kids lives are probably going to suck, and that’s unfortunate, but that’s her problem not the gov’s. i have no sympathy for this lady, she knew what she was doing and what she was getting into. if she has a hard time raising them or whatever, then it’s her own fault and i think everyone should just leave her alone

  2. hieunguyen says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:52 am

    Who in their right mind would want to have 14 kids? While its true that people from generations before have grown up with large families but i think thats only because birth control wasnt promoted by then. i think this lady has a problem, perhaps an addiction, but just like how we treat druggies we should not allow her to keep doing this. It would be like giving a drug addict more drugs. She needs to have her kids taken away be in some kind of rehab.

  3. robert_s says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:43 am

    isnt cali poor and arnold and his peeps prob arnt that smart by watching the vid the lady has a nice house she will be fine if she couldn’t handle it she wouldn’t have done it plus free country she could have 20 kids thats her prob

  4. killanick says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:42 am

    ya i just dont understand what she is thinking

  5. mrosman says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:41 am

    So, robert_s on – What about the local government? Do you think the local government in Caolifornia, perhaps the city government, could handle it?

  6. robert_s says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:36 am

    the gov. shouldnt even be thinking about this right now there are a million other things that they can worry about other than some stupid chick

  7. forrestbriwa says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:33 am

    Dude, this lady is crazy. i hope she has fun raisin all those kids cause thats gonna suck.

  8. Lisa LeBourgeois says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:15 am

    How many kids she has is her choice–the government has never interviened in large families before, so why now? Why should this woman be the first?

  9. .sasha. says:
    02/04/2009 at 11:12 am

    uh…im a tad grossed out at the
    thought of all those kidss. because i
    hate children. they poo, they cry, they’re
    messy, and the make me wanna vomit.

    gross.

  10. Marc De Leon says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:49 pm

    It wouldn’t make sense to me to mix a bunch of different donors.

  11. mrosman says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:48 pm

    Good question Marc De Leon, are they all from one donor, or not?

  12. mrosman says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:45 pm

    So GertrudesWrath, do you think she could make a living off of this? Having children and selling them to parents? It would be kind of like a puppy mill! Is there anything unethical about that?

  13. Marc De Leon says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:45 pm

    Who evers sperm it was must have been a pretty potent dude.

  14. Mayra says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:44 pm

    ummmmmmmmmm this is kinda creepy?? well honestly i dont know if the govt. should help seeing how it was her decision to have 14 kids. my Granma is one of 19!!!!! and shes doing pretty good?

  15. patthamas says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:43 pm

    i think thats call child- trafficing- this is AMerica not China. lol jk

  16. christinaaaa says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:43 pm

    She maybe able to handle 14 kids, but taking care of them will be a fortune! The government will need to help her out. And i believe she should NOT be allowed to get anotherrrr invetro fertilization.

    btw how is an addiction annoying?!

  17. GertrudesWrath says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:42 pm

    she could make lots of money if she sold them to parents looking to adopt that cant have babies

  18. patthamas says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:41 pm

    am not saying she’s living off the government, I just think she should be responsible and she should not depend on the gov. and gov. shouldnt help. but haha addicted to having children, talk about a way painful, and annoying addiction.

  19. withanurgency131 says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:40 pm

    Ian lives in a shoe….

  20. mrosman says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:38 pm

    Well patthamas, I’m not sure that she’s living off the government. I think she’s just addicted to having children.

  21. killafresh says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:34 pm

    I bet she was lookin’ killafresh the moment the last kid popped out

  22. patthamas says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:33 pm

    understand that as a mother it would be hard to let go of your children, but at the same time loiving off the government is no way to raise a child, and its just irresponsible on her part

  23. withanurgency131 says:
    02/03/2009 at 1:33 pm

    YOUR mom declared bankruptcy….

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