Selective faith.

[rhino47]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/264883_quints30.html
Four girls and boy to make debut
It's showtime for Western Washington's first quintuplets

By CAROL SMITH

Stevenson and her husband, Mike, are expected to greet those five babies for the first time today when they're delivered by Caesarean section at the hospital's First Hill campus. The delivery, which was scheduled for 9 a.m., will be only the second recorded quintuplet birth in the state, and the first in Western Washington.Courtnee, who has a condition that causes early menopause, required fertility treatment to get pregnant. She used the drug Pergonal to stimulate ovulation and conceived their first daughter, Lilli, now 3 years old.

Doctors advised them to reduce the number of fetuses in utero, but they declined, citing their faith.

Here is where I feel selective faith comes into the picture.If you believe its all in gods hand then wouldnt being able to have a baby in the first place be in gods hand not a scientist hands?I am somewhat sickened by women now having litters.This to me is wrong on so many levels.If they do not have the money or space to have so many children why do they have them?These babies are more likely then not are going to suffer.The pictures this morning showed three on respirators.I cringe to think of what is ahead of these poor beings.Therapy and continued medical treatment is likely.Is this faith too?
I can not get over the same people espousing that evolution is not science are usually the same ones that believe science is okay for them to have offspring.Before I get flamed I am not against fertility treatments.I just think its science not god.

[KitchenWitch]

1. I agree

God's hand in it was the infertility in the first place.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I won't flame you because I agree with you.

I have no issue with fertility treatments, my brother and his wife had their daughter that way and she is beyond precious. I do have an issue with claiming that five babies is part of God's plan, because it doesn't occur that often in nature.

The McCaughey septuplets and her holier than thou crap pushed me completely over the edge. Two of those children have CP. Just because a woman CAN give birth to seven children, doesn't mean she should.

JHMO. YMMV.