I'd be more comfortable if the condemnations were for the more specific reasons of medical malpractice.
Each of my maternal great-grandma's had 15 kids. But those kids came over 20 years, and were thus able to help each other.
There are many, many very good single-parent families. It's almost the norm in some communities and can be very good. In fact, it can be better than the alternative.
It is irresponsible to implant so many embryos, because of the chances of problems- and in the UK I recall the guideline is about 2 or 3 embryos per implantation.
That said, the UK has universal health system, which reduces patient autonomy but takes personal wealth out of health care. If it doesn't work, the client just tries again, and doesn't have to face a huge bill for "no gain."
It's also irresponsible to implant a whole lot and plan to ablate if too many "take"- because you can't dictate to the woman and she may lie about her intent.
The reasons for high implantations are because a large number of such artificially introduced embryos usually don't take. The procedure alone is expensive and stressful, and people like to reduce that.
We don't know what she told the doctors and we know they can't really check a lot of details. I think this is a clear case of American Autonomy Preference V. sound practice, not a lesson in the horrors of single moms or premature, multiple births.
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Each of my maternal great-grandma's had 15 kids.
But those kids came over 20 years, and were thus able to help each other.
There are many, many very good single-parent families. It's almost the norm in some communities and can be very good. In fact, it can be better than the alternative.
It is irresponsible to implant so many embryos, because of the chances of problems- and in the UK I recall the guideline is about 2 or 3 embryos per implantation.
That said, the UK has universal health system, which reduces patient autonomy but takes personal wealth out of health care. If it doesn't work, the client just tries again, and doesn't have to face a huge bill for "no gain."
It's also irresponsible to implant a whole lot and plan to ablate if too many "take"- because you can't dictate to the woman and she may lie about her intent.
The reasons for high implantations are because a large number of such artificially introduced embryos usually don't take. The procedure alone is expensive and stressful, and people like to reduce that.
We don't know what she told the doctors and we know they can't really check a lot of details. I think this is a clear case of American Autonomy Preference V. sound practice, not a lesson in the horrors of single moms or premature, multiple births.