As a follow-up to Sarah’s post from a few weeks ago about the octomom, a Post-Dispatch columnist has a nice article today that asks some good questions. I am the first to admit I don’t know the answers. I don’t like the idea of laws controlling this situation, but I could be persuaded. Most importantly, people need to understand how they will be condemned and ostracized by others when they do things like implant multiple embryos as part of fertility treatments into a woman who already has six children. The doctor is as much to blame here as the woman. And, because media interviews conducted since Sarah’s initial post indicate that this woman appears to be nuts, the state should probably play a role in monitoring the children. It will already be paying for the next 18 years of their lives. …
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David Stokes
David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.
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