Where is the compassion for the children of Nadya Suleman? Yes, she choose to have 14 children even though she already gets and will need even more state and federal assistance aka welfare. While for most of us the idea totally boggles our mind and our initial reaction is that she must be mentally ill, lets stop and think for a moment before we neuter her and enact legislation to limit the number of children a woman can have (yes some have really posed this idea). Now I can’t attest to this woman’s mental state but my opinion was that her decision to have this many children certainly wasn’t a wise choice. But are her actions reason to call for her to be sterilized or for her children to be taken from her?

So far most of the argument I’ve heard against her stems around money. M O N E Y!! Some have already speculated that it will cost approximately $1.3million for the hospital care and stay of the octuplets. A bill Mediacaid will foot. A hefty sum I agree, but what is a human life worth? I know for some not much as they would have encouraged her to terminate some of the embryos. I know this is standard practice in the realm of fertility medicine as multiple births pose several risks. But if a mother chooses not to terminate a life who are we to judge, it is her right to choose after all.

Now I believe some counselling should have preceded her decision to carry her remaining frozen embryos and the doctors should have evaluated her situation before agreeing to the procedure. And maybe a little oversight is needed here by the state’s family services. We’ll probably see moves towards this.

But the babies are already here. And they deserve a decent start in life. So I urge the diaper companies to give and the people to donate strollers and clothing. Someone who has a house sitting there empty because of the state of the real estate market, offer it as a place for them to live. Bring on the book and movie deals, the interviews. Let her auction off the pictures of her babies, there is no uproar when the movie stars do it. Besides it can be argued that its in the tax-payers best interest that she’s allowed to make money this way. And let’s pray for these children. Their mother has already made the situation very difficult for them and if we can help let’s do so.

There are children and families in our own communities that we can help too. We don’t have to wait for a disaster to lend a helping hand. And let’s try not to think of people by a monetary value – how much they earn or how much they cost the taxpayers. This woman will never cost us the amount of money our government has wasted over the years. A person’s life is worth far more that even the Stimulus package.