Custom essays: Reproductive Rights

I would like to discuss in this paper interesting case of Nadia Suleman and concentrate our attention on the ethical issues of this situation. I think that detailed description of Nadia’s case will allow us to plunge into the problem and real-life situation will help us to think about existed situation from another side.
According to various information sources we received the next information about the main subject of our research. Nadia Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez (also known as Natalie Denise Suleman) was born July 11, 1975. She was called Octomom in the mass media. She came in to international attention after giving birth to eight children in January 2009. These children are known as Suleman Octoplets. They are just second set of such kind of children that were born alive in United States of America. This high order multiply birth of the Suleman Octoplets led to discussion in the topic of assisted reproductive technology and an investigation by the Medical board California fertility specialists were involved as well.
Negative reaction of people started after it was discovered that Nadia – single mother – already had six small children apart of new ones. She was unemployed and she was on public assistant program. Nadia Suleman got her children through in vitro fertilization. Dr. Michael Kamrava conducted this vitro fertilization. This operation was made according to Nadia’s wish. She was informed that it is preferable for the woman of her age to should limit the number of children to three. She knew that six embryos remained from the previous fertilization treatment transferred. Nadia wanted to attempt the new pregnancy and she decided to save her remaining embryos so they would not be destroyed. After she told that two embryos split. From the first part of her pregnancy Nadia’s health and gestational status was followed. After one month of pregnancy five children were evident already. The woman was suggested to do option of selective reduction but she refused.
According her mother’s words Nadia Suleman “obsessed” with having children since her teenage years. “She loves children, she is very good with children, but obviously she overdid herself,” Angela Suleman said.
In January 2010 the doctor who did fertilization for Nadia Suleman was accused. Charges were filed against him. According to Bryant (2009), they consisted of “gross negligence and implanting a number of embryos that far exceeds guidelines for the patient’s age and history” as well. One more accusation stated, “Fresh and not frozen embryos were used at the same time”. Soon it became obvious that there were not the two sets of identical twins as Nadia stated before. It was six embryos form the very beginning. Embryos did not split six embryos form and it supposed six children to remain. But people did not know how many children were transferred indeed because medical information is confidential.
Anyway, there is no law to restrict the number of children that could be implanted to woman’s womb. Nevertheless, a woman needs to follow her doctor’s recommendations. Guidelines that doctor recommends is based on the information about the woman’s physical and mental condition. Sure it is an important information but the information about home’s life and family is also vitally important for the decision.
It is known now that Nadia’s family is not wealthy and they have no possibilities to care about all those children. Moreover, the children were not born in a full family with husband and wife where husband is the biological father of the children also. Suleman family had problems with the place for living and other people helped them.
Doctor who helped Nadia with fertilization supposes to know her situation. Nadia’s case has raised a number of the thorny ethical questions. Duke (2009) mentioned that one of them is if the doctor who treated Nadia Suleman had a right to accept Ms. Suleman for fertility treatment. She had six elder children already and as I mentioned before she was a single mother without a constant work place and stable income.
Doctors all over the world accept that Nadia’s Suleman case is very interesting case for the scientist’s world. The treatment in hospital was well enough and children and mother had good conditions. However, the same scientists are ready to forget about the scientist researches and think first about the every day life of the Family. “I find it a huge ethical failure that she was even accepted as a patient,” Dr. Caplan said.
After claiming 1 million of dollars liability according the court records Nadia’s mother become a bankrupt. Powers (2009) notes that Nadia did not explain how she would take care about the family. Public – people and groups – was made to take part in their life. It was a kind of decision but with its own dark side. According to Archibold (2009) we received interesting pieces of information and phrases that will be quoted in some further parts of the paper. “That’s the part that bothers me,” Mr. Bragman said. “Exactly, what are they going do with them? The more money you get, the more privacy you give up. These kids are going to have a hard enough time without becoming media freaks.” It is true; the mother did not think about financial support for her family, she decided to accept the support of public. Finally she turned the life of her children in to movie. It is known that if public gives support it wants to take part in the event.
I want to resume my project and state that I agree with the majority of researchers, scientists and public people that Nadia’s doctor had no moral right to accept the woman as patient even if there is no law to ban it.

References
Archibold, R. (2009). Octuplets, 6 Siblings, and Many Questions. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/04octuplets.html?_r=1
Bryant, C. (2009). “Report: Octuplets likely to cost taxpayers millions”. The Washington Times. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
California octuplets mom passes on offer of 24-hour nursing care, The Canadian Press, February 28, 2009.
Curry, A. (2009-02-10). “Her side of the story”. Dateline NBC. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
Duke, A. (2009, October 19). “Medical society boots doctor who did IVF in Suleman octuplets case.” CNN.
Powers, L. (2009, March 9). “Octuplet Mom’s Ex: We Split Because We Couldn’t Have Kids” (HTML). usmagazine.com. Us Weekly. Retrieved 2009-03-04.