Saturday, February 7, 2009

Nadya Suleman's Doc "Ock" Still Unknown

I wonder how the fertility doctor of the octuplet mom must be feeling right about now - knowing sooner or later he will have to face the music and explain why he allowed Nadya Suleman, a woman with 6 kids (2 -7 years old) to undergo in vitro fertilization.

It seems that the public outroar over this case has triggered an investigation by the Medical Board of California - to see if there was a "violation of the standard of care", board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said yesterday.

"The revelation about one center treating her makes the treatment even harder to understand," said Arthur Caplan, bioethics chairman at the University of Pennsylvania. "They went ahead when she had six kids, knowing that she was a single mom ... and put embryos into her anyway."

In the United States, there is no law dictating the number of embryos that can be placed in a mother's womb. Multiple embryos can be implanted to improve the odds that one will take.
Still no word from the doctor who performed the in vitro procedure.

I bet right now he wishes he could crawl into a womb and hide for 8 months!

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