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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
I think that insurance companies should seek payment from the fertility clinics when these multi-million dollar multiple birth deliveries happen.
They try to. Or at least they tried to with the Jon & Kate plus 8 couple. A lot of times the couples aren't exactly pro-choice and selective termination isn't really considered an option. I suspect if they had to foot the delivery and NICU bills themselves, they'd think a little harder about it.
My boyfriend and I talked a little about this last night. I said I had no problem with selective termination if I'm carrying more than three fetuses due to fertility treatment. He said he had no problem with adoption if for some reason we can't get pregnant.
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What I don't get is how a doctor can ethically implant eight embryos in a woman who is already a single parent living with her parents and has six children already. It is absolutely ridiculous. If a woman wants to get her tubes tied, she has to go through (in most states, as I understand it) psychological counselling. And then she has to wait. And then, if she's married, she has to get permission from her husband (I am not making this point because I think its sexist, because married men have to get permission from their wives to have a vasectomy, but rather, that its another obstacle). So if you don't want kids, there's something wrong with you and you need psychological counselling, but if you want 14, there's a doctor who will fix you right up. Insanity.
And I say this as someone who would have a very hard time "selectively reducing" if it happened to me. I think if I want kids and can't have them, I'll adopt.
