Assisted Reproductive Technology

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This is a subject we haven't discussed much here. I thought about this earlier in the week when I read something about Octomom's 9th (?) Anniversary. She's been in and out of the spotlight since then and was sued for Welfare fraud because she didn't claim the money she made from making a Porn Movie.

Now I just read this article with made me absolutely sick to my stomach:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mother-charged-son-beats-newborn-sister-death-103458533.html

Quote:A 62-year-old Florida woman is charged with aggravated manslaughter after authorities said her 6-year-old son beat his newborn sister to death while the children and their 3-year-old brother were left alone in the family's minivan

What are our thoughts on these proceedures?

Should they be allowed?
Should there be limits and if so, what?
Should insurance cover?
ect..

In the case of the Octomom, if memory serves, she already had 6 kids (also through in Vetro) as a single mom and was implanted with 12 ferlitzed eggs, of which 8 were carried to term.

In the case of Steele, she is a 62 year old single mother that was artifically inseminated with her dead husband's sperm.