Ethicist: ‘Doctors should do more to avoid octuplets’
January 30th, 2009From National Public Radio:
As a woman gave birth to octuplets at a hospital near Los Angeles on Monday, she let loose an intense debate about the ethics of megamultiple births.
… “I don’t know any case where some of the children were not severely disabled,” Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania tells NPR’s Madeleine Brand.
Caplan said the case raises a host of ethical questions about fertility treatments and multiple births: the likelihood of disabilities among the babies, the use of hospital resources, and the high cost of medical care to the mother and babies.
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Octuplets’ mother already has twins, four other children — Los Angeles Times
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January 30th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
The problem is fertility treatments, not multiple births.