The innate nature of women in society to nurture has decreased and has been replaced by a more competitive attitude.Many women no longer wish for a house with a white picket fence, three beautiful children and a minivan with leather interior. They have clearly abdicated their thrones in the kitchen and have usurped the jobs bringing home some more bacon. In such a society, women have realized the monetary benefits of giving birth. Yes, it has become a money-making scheme promising riches after just nine months of hard labor.People must realize the blatantly obvious sexism and unethical issues of the aforementioned scheme and help to nip it in the bud.Octuplets born in California to single mother Nadya Suleman is seeking $2 million from media tycoons including Oprah Winfrey and Diane Sawyer to help pay for the cost of raising her children, The [UK] Times Online reported Feb. 1. It was revealed later that she had six other kids. This time, though, she only wanted “a girl,” reported the Los Angeles Times. She received in vitro fertilization from doctors who conveniently implanted eight embryos assuming she could not fertilize all of them.Fourteen kids are now under the wing a single mother goose. Considering the first six children must have already caused a strain in the family budget, many have since questioned the financial soundness of Suleman’s actions.Suleman is an unemployed student supported by her financially burdened parents according to a Feb. 2 article from CBS News. Suleman reportedly wants to become a TV childcare expert to earn money.But why would anyone like Suleman qualify for the position of a childcare expert? A childcare expert should be a responsible adult and citizen, not a woman obsessed with having many children despite her financial problems.If people allow Suleman to earn even a single dollar off media interest for her babies, then they are choosing to condone the abhorrent actions of a woman giving birth and hoping to obtain money from it.Technological and medical help also support this immoral practice. A background check of the individual’s financial history and condition should be mandated by doctors. Only those who can afford multiple children should be allowed to receive IVF.Despite the medical autonomy guaranteed to patients in the U.S., abortion rights advocates argue the necessity of doctors saving a person from self-harm. Having eight children is not an easy matter. Although the babies are all well along with the mother, such actions should not be encouraged.In countries like Germany and Italy, only two embryos are legally implanted when a woman receives an IVF to prevent such dangerous decisions from ever occurring, reported CNN in a Jan. 30 article.The U.S. medical field ought to follow such precautions and check who they allow to become pregnant.Contrary to women, some pious fathers are moving back to their instinctual days of wanting to reproduce more children despite inability to afford the action.Former Jewish rabbi, Philip Sharp, has recently fathered his eleventh child with his seventh wife in Britain on Jan. 20, according to the Daily Express.Even though he struggles to pay for all the cubs and claims 800 pounds a month in child benefits, he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Government ought to regulate such individuals to protect them and their potential offspring. Society ought to encourage legal action and mandatory regulations from healthcare professionals to prevent such cases from occurring. People ought to stop women from reaping profit from the system simply by producing excess children and men from reproducing more children than they can afford.- – – -Contact Dini Parayitam at [email protected]
Perfect Dystopia: Government should intervene in excessive births
February 5, 2009