Anonymous Mom, No Dads, + 14

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Tiki

I guess some dumb bitch in California popping out a litter is easier to get outraged about... certainly more Jerry-Springer.

First off, I think that's a vile thing to say. A bitch popping out a litter?

My only problem with it is from a medical ethics point of view. Her choices are her choices, but a doctor who should know better chose to act in a way that risked his patient's health unnecessarily, and which has been widely condemned by his professional peers. I have a similar problem with surgeons agreeing to carry out multiple plastic surgery operations on someone with extreme body dysmorphia.

This young woman may well want a big family. Nothing wrong, or abnormal about that. But it's also possible she is locked into the baby-hood part of mothering; or is fulfilling some great need that can't really be fulfilled. When people go to extremes in their choices, it's sometimes worth asking the question is this more than just normal desire, or has it broadened out into something pathological in nature?

I don't know, but I don't get the impression that this woman was given much counselling. If I was the medical practitioner, I'd have alarm bells ringing in my ears and would want to satisfy my conscience that I was not dealing with someone vulnerable.