🚀 go-pugleaf

Carl Witthoft wrote:

> In article <65mm43$pc3@fridge.shore.net>, Dan Kennedy <dkennedy@shore.net>
> wrote:
>
> > : In article <347DC8DB.2EB8@ix.netcom.com>, snowbird@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > : Is the story about race, or is it about the first-ness of
> > : seven babies surviving birth vs. the not-so-specialness-anymore
> > : of a mere six babies surviving?
> >
> > And there has been something of a happy side-effect from all of this.
> > Groups in Washington have reacted to all the attention in Iowa by finally
> > stepping forward and helping the family of the five surviving babies.
> > After all, that's quite a burden too. (Frankly, I can't imagine how people
> > even cope with twins!)
> >
>
> Yeah, but the whole thing is really shitty journalism.  Aside from the
> fact that 7 (or 6, or any number more than 2) children in one family means
> a major tax burden to the rest of us, a puff piece like this overlooks the
> medical reality that most multiple birth outcomes are nowhere near this
> good.  Lots of triplets, let alone megabirths, have various physical
> and/or mental problems.  However,
> just try to explain that to people who only want to see the rare success
> story and don't give a damn about reality.
>
> Anything that encourages people to go wacko over artificial fertilization
> is bad bad bad.

Gotta agree with you here - as the famous doctor (of course I forget which one)
said:

"Human beings were not intended to have litters."



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