(Tim) Justice of the peace in tow, Suleman's father was chasing the hospital with a shotgun until "the hospital made it clear it had nothing to do with getting Suleman pregnant."
Honest. That's exactly what the newspaper reported.
And by the way, did you notice that the state is "investigating" to see if laws were broken by this mother carrying her children to term? Sitting in the fridge, they were, prior to nestling into their mother's womb.
The headline is "Octuplets' birth spawns outrage from public."
Listen, if people are angry at the cost of the octuplets and ready to tar and feather the mother...
it won't be long before outrage is spawned by other costly births. Think Spina Bifida. Down Syndrome. Cystic Fibrosis. Hemophilia...
And if one slips through the birth canal, the mother will receive death threats and the government will investigate. Dutifully.
(If readers are wondering, I don't think babies should be made with the intent of imprisoning them in the fridge. The whole fertility assistance business is shot through with grave moral errors. But these babies are no one's enemies. And before implantation they were prisoners in the fridge, but now they're free.)
