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Article: Giving IVF a bad name; Fertility doctors on defense after 'Octo-Mom'.(PLUGGED IN - LIVING)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2009
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Byline: Karen Goldberg Goff, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In the month since the birth of Nadya Suleman's octuplets, reaction has gone from curiosity to sympathy to anger. The public has questions about everything from who the father is to how she will pay for diapers and medical care.
Fertility specialists also are asking questions.
Many reproductive endocrinologists have concerns about the doctor who performed in vitro fertilization for Miss Suleman. They wonder how a profession that has highly refined the art and science of helping women who have struggled to get pregnant could be so misused.
Most in my specialty are outraged, says Suheil ...