It would be one thing if this had been a fluke of nature that this woman ended up with eight embryos. After all, she does not seem to have a way to support her now FOURTEEN children and they have no father.

Now we come to find out she may have had these embryos implanted by a doctor in Mexico and he may have PAID her for this?

Why on EARTH would someone PAY a woman to have a litter of human beings???  What kind of medical ethics does this doctor have, if any???  This is exactly what the state of California, the United States and the planet DO NOT NEED - eight mouths for the taxpayers to PAY FOR  till they are adults. This is beyond irresponsible for this woman and this doctor!!!

Anyone remember the nursery rhyme about the Old Woman in the Shoe?

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

I'm fairly sure the Old Woman in the Shoe did not use In Vitro Fertilization to have her many children.

Here are some comments from people around the net on this ridiculous event. Seems most feel the way I do.. it should never have happened and it was selfish of the mother and the doctor who implanted EIGHT embryos!

Julie Mack - Kalamazoo Gazette

Cost of California Octuplets - Newark Examiner

Shut That Vagina Down - Huffington Post

This is how I feel about people who CAN'T AFFORD TO RAISE CHILDREN BEFORE THEY BECOME PREGNANT - They should NOT continue to get government handouts just because they have a vagina and a womb. We have created a reward system for procreating human beings who are dependent on handouts from their first breath. We do NOT need to continue to reward irresponsible behavior.

Of course many will say - well then what would you do with all these children - let them starve?  I say - it is the responsibility of the woman who decided to bring them into this world. It is NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A SOCIETY TO CARE OF THE CHILDREN OF IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS LIKE NADYA.

Here's an idea - if she needs the taxpayers to support these children - then the ones she cannot afford to support should be distributed to homes where they can be supported. I'm sick and tired of welfare mothers popping out kids without any control so that we have to shell out more and more money to support them. I think I read recently that 47% of the US is on some kind of government handouts.

I did some digging and found this excellent study on government assistance dependence from the Heritage Foundation.

Excerpts of note:

The 1996 Welfare Reform Act, or the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportu­nity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), replaced the decades-long Aid to Families with Dependent Chil­dren (AFDC), through which recipients were enti­tled to unconditional benefits, with Temporary Assistance to Need Families (TANF), a block grant program. Welfare reform effectively altered the fun­damental premise of receiving public aid and ended it as an entitlement. Receiving assistance was now temporary and tied to demonstrable efforts by the recipients to find work or take part in work-related activities. Self-sufficiency of the recipients became the focus. The successes of welfare reform are unde­niable. Between August 1996 and March 2008, wel­fare caseloads declined by 63.5 percent, from 4.5 million families to 1.6 million families.

The initial years after welfare reform witnessed dramatic progress, but by the late-1990s, most states had met the PRWORA's work goals, and the motivation to further reduce dependence and encourage work among recipients waned. The national TANF caseload flatlined between 2000 and 2005, and only one-third of TANF recipients worked. In February 2006, after four years of debate, Congress reauthorized TANF under the Deficit Reduction Act. The new legislation reiterates the need to engage recipients in acceptable work activities, moving them to self-sufficiency.

The 2006 reauthorization also contains a notable measure that begins to rectify the inattention to the other two 1996 welfare reform goals: reducing unwed childbearing and restoring stable family for­mation.[23] The erosion of marriage and family is a primary contributing factor to child poverty and welfare dependence, and it figures significantly in a host of social problems.[24] Troublingly, for the last four decades, the unwed birth rate has been rising steadily, from 5.3 percent in 1960, to 38.5 percent in 2006.[25] Today, more than one child in three is born outside of marriage.

Despite the 1996 Welfare Reform Act and the 2006 TANF reauthorization, comprehensive wel­fare reform is far from achieved.

Too many of these welfare programs oper­ate on means-tested eligibility and without any real mechanism to break dependence. Twelve years after the reform, the welfare system still rewards non-work.

So ... how long do we let people like Nadya abuse the system? What do we do with these uncontrollable vaginas????