Mental Patients Must Not Be Allowed to Have Kids from Planck's Constant

Expensive Times 8: The Cost of Octuplets(ABC News)
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If you have 6 children already and you seek fertility treatments to have more children then you should be certified as mentally ill. And mentally ill people should not be allowed to have children. I know, if you are a Libertarian, as I am, your first reaction will be that the government should not stick its nose into matters such as the woman who had 8 babies ¹, but when the framers of our Constitution were considering our Bill of Rights they were not envisioning a society where reckless individuals could rack up medical bills in the millions of dollars which would have to be paid for by other citizens.

The previous set of octuplets ² cost California taxpayers more than two million dollars, so the excuse that she can afford 14 babies is disingenuous unless this new mother actually pays for this latest travesty which required more than 45 doctors and ringed in for more than 3.5 million dollars.

I would say that since California is asking for Federal loans to help them stay in business that it looks like I will end up paying for this frill out of my tax monies. The notion that these babies were probably helped in their births by fertility treatments and no intercourse was involved is not entirely true - the American taxpayer got screwed.

If we lived in a sane country, this woman would not have been fertilized with 8 embryos. It happens that this many births run unusually high risks for premature birth and other problems which will require extraordinary medical treatments most of which very few families can afford. In fact only the very, very rich could afford and they have the decency to have as few children as possible. We are no longer living in 10,000 B.C. where human parents need a few dozen births in order to insure the survival of the species.

The time has come to start setting limits on how many children civilized society can tolerate. Anyone who wants to have more than 4 children will need to put up a cash bond for $250,000 per extra child to insure that responsible citizens like myself are not paying the cost for someone else's party. When that child reaches majority and is not a burden on the state, the money can be returned to the parents. We already tell people that if they cannot afford car insurance that they cannot drive and that does not prevent folks from having a dozen cars if they wish - they merely need to insure 12 cars.

Some may argue that this is an attempt to limit births among poor minorities who may not have enough money to put up a bond for ten or twelve children, and I say: precisely! One of the reasons that these people are poor is because no one had the good sense to stop them before they went overboard. Unless you are very rich it is unlikely you can take care of more than 2 or 3 children. It is unlikely they will all get a good education or have decent clothing or grow up properly fed.

Before you say it's none of my business, I say if you want to have as many babies as can pass through your vagina then sign a paper saying you will not use medicare, child services, food stamps, welfare, or anything else from the government then go at it my fecund young lady, have a ball. But if I'm footing the bill, I have a right to say when enough is enough.

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FoxNews, 8 Is Definitely Enough: New Mom Learning What It's Like to Have Octuplets
A woman in Southern California gave birth Monday to the second set of octuplets ever delivered alive in the United States.
Doctors described the six boys and two girls as a feisty bunch who made their entrance kicking and crying and seemed to be doing remarkably well, despite arriving nine weeks premature. They ranged in weight from 1 pound-8 ounces, to 3 pounds-4 ounces.

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Say Anything Reader Blogs, Immigrant has octuplets; California taxpayers to cough up $2 Million
Mark Perloe, MD and E. Scott Sills, MD, of the Atlanta Reproductive Health Center, say that no one likes to count pennies when it comes to health care, especially for premature babies, but these multiple births are accompanied by huge expenses. Doctors caring for the octuplets born in Houston in 1998 estimated the babies’ care cost at least $2 million (about $250,000 per infant) before they even went home. Add the likely expenses for providing ongoing medical care after the babies left the hospital, and the cost quickly soared into the millions.