More on the Mother of Octuplets

The recent birth of octuplets has generated a feeding frenzy, not just from the media but with the public. Ordinary conversations turn to discussions about the mother of the octuplets. Everyone has an opinion and most are brutally negative. Even her parents have turned on her.

Raising all of these children will certainly be very difficult. But, one thing is certain. The mother is ardently pro-life. She refused to have her embryos destroyed and refused to have “selective reduction,” meaning that doctors would choose which babies in her womb to inject with a lethal substance and which ones they would let live.

Why are people obsessed with this event to the point of hysteria? I don’t know all of the rationale but detect a pattern here. Remember the disdain and outright cruelty that Sarah Palin faced because she had the audacity to give birth to a baby she knew to have Down syndrome? And the disgusting way daughter Bristol was treated for deciding to carry her child to term?

There is no privacy here with talking heads blathering for hours about lives that are not theirs. They claim the octuplets should not suffer because of the acts of their mother. Well, how is it helpful to the children if the mother is constantly under attack and people openly discuss the government taking her children away?

I feel empathy for the octuplet mother. If I lived in her community, I would be preparing meals and signing up to help feed, diaper and hold babies. What do you think?

Barbara Lyons

Barbara Lyons