Comments on: Are Duomoms as Bad as Octomoms?

By: Sarah Brodsky

Sarah Brodsky — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:32:51 +0000

vroman–I agree.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:19:53 +0000

There are women who do have elective single embryo transfer (eSET) and still end up with twins (identical, of course). What then?

I’m all for single embryo transfers, but as a woman who has undergone IVF I know how expensive it is. There needs to be a way to encourage women to undergo eSET, such as reducing the costs for embryo freezing and the cost for a frozen cycle.

By: vroman

vroman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:25:36 +0000

“opt for reduction”

woah. euphemism of the year.

By: Sarah Brodsky

Sarah Brodsky — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:58:35 +0000

Christine–as far as I can tell the panelists are focused on fertility treatments, but here’s what Evans says:

“Although difficult for many to accept, if one defines success as a healthy mother and healthy family, there is no question that it is safer for a woman with twins to opt for reduction and give birth to only one child.”

He does not advocate turning that into policy, though, at least not in the essay on the Times website.

By: Christine Harbin

Christine Harbin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:24:03 +0000

What would happen if a couple conceived twins naturally after a ban on twins had been enacted? Would the state mandate an abortion of one of the fetuses?

By: Papillon

Papillon — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:15:42 +0000

Higher deductibles for multiple births? The market would say yes, but health care isn’t really that free of a market, and the public would have a field day over it, like the dropping of the insurance of the statistically more likely to be expensive ‘chubby boy’.

My experience with octo-mom was that the outrage was over how could a single mom raise eight kids on her own, even if she did have some parental help? They would become wards of the state in one way or another.

As a friend of mine said, Million Dollar Baby isn’t just a movie.