Reply #276: I don't know the details,

[wickerwoman]

but I think it's standard practice in IVF to implant many more embryos than they expect to survive since the success rate is relatively low... probably 99.9% of the time most of the embryos aren't viable and the mother ends up with singletons, twins or maybe triplets. I think it's a pretty freak case to get all six surviving (and two splitting into twins.)

I think this woman made a pretty silly choice, but I'm not going to say to doctors "you can't perform this operation which your patients asked for on their own body" and I'm not going to be the one to set a cap on embryo implantation when so many parents go through round after round of IVF and still can't have a child. And I'm not sure it's the best use of government resources to have them reviewing on a case by case basis who gets IVF and when and in what way.

If and when there is solid proof that this woman is neglecting her children, they should be taken away and put into foster care. Until then, the government needs to stay the hell out of her uterus.