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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (103434)2/7/2009 1:53:40 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 541835
 
I agree that this case is different from the octuplet situation, but I have a feeling that the same legal standards would apply in both cases.

I don't know CA law on this, but I doubt if the law prevents fertility doctors from refusing to implant 8 embryos in a 33 year old unemployed single woman who already has 6 children. Or in any woman, for that matter, unemployed or not, single or not, whatever age. Many countries have laws against implanting more than 3 embryos at a time. It is medically unsafe, both for the mother and the fetuses. Not only for the gestation period and birthing process, but for the health of the surviving babies. It is also economically stupid. For the individual, for an already burdened and expensive medical system, and for society generally.
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