THE STORY OF OCTUPLETS

On January 31, 2009, casually looking through a few news websites I accidentally came across a very short odd but interesting and touchy news report, “octuplets’ mother already had six children”. The very term “octuplets” attracted me to read through the whole article. It basically talked about a Los Angeles based woman, mother of six, whose identity is not disclosed gave birth to eight babies. According to the report, the women’s marital status is unknown and the octuplets were not born through a natural process and the woman had undergone a fertility treatment. The times noted that under the general guidelines of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, “ US doctor normally would not implant more than two embryos at a time in a woman under the age of thirty five”, and the public records show that this women is thirty three, thus implying that the doctor mistakenly implanted eight. However, she refused to abort the embryos because she did not want to kill the tiny beautiful babies. People have their own individual perception i.e. psychological perception about things. Some might define it has her obsession for kids but some may even be cognizant about her inner feelings.
I know that we have moved way forward from the old pre historic times to today’s twenty first century; but, I still feel that from the time this world has evolved women’s most prominent and powerful role out of all other has been that of a “child bearer”. Thus, women and only women can be the “nest defender”.