🚀 go-pugleaf

Carl Witthoft <cgwAT@world.std.com> wrote:

: 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.

: -- 
: Carl Witthoft(changeDOT)  cgw@worldDOTstd.com carl@aoaincDOTcom
: Pinball maniac, windsurfer, volleyball setter, happy Dad
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The media have been LOADED with stories on the problems of multiple
births. Weirdly, I've seen at least three or four columns lamenting the
"fact" that the media have been unquestioningly celebrating the birth of
the septuplets. Well, if it's a fact, what are all those columns doing
there?

Dan Kennedy
http://www.shore.net/~dkennedy