In Class: Freewrite; Titles are overrated

In all three of my primary texts, I would say that they are all alike in the text in that they are all about how this even that happened in California was an upset to doctors, specialists, bioethicists, and just regular people. There is also an upset in how the ethics of this situation folded out. How is being pregnant with eight children right? The focus on ethics in all three texts is whats alike in all three and honestly, that's the main concern right now with Nadya. How was this decision morally right? Of course we're all worried about how the children are at the moment and we all worry about how the children will be and how they will act when they grow up, but mroe importantly, why did a fertility specialist do this to a patient knowing all the risks involved with carrying just one fetus?

The way the texts are different from one another by how they are all each approached by a different view, unfortunately, they're all negative. One text focuses on how the professional standards were being disregarded by the fertility specialist and another text focuses on why this decision was made or the explanation behind the reasoning.

Everyone is not happy about this. When you're not married, don't have a job, and alerady have six children, why would someone do this knowing they can't properly support themselves let alone now their fourteen childern? We are all confused right now and we all want a clear and strong response from Nadya on answering the big question, why did you do this? Her only reply though that we've gotten from her is that she wanted a big family. Did she ever put into mind the finanaces and the love and care you have to put into having a big family? Did she ever think about how messed up these childrens lives will be never getting the proper attention they deserve?

An unstaed assumption and/or belief is that all women want children and that they will do anything to make that happen. Some women and married couples don't want to have any children at all but those who do want children try feverishly to make that happen and if it doesn't, they get frantic. They will then turn to a fertility specialist and pay over $10,000 just to get a few eggs fertilized, but to some money is not the issue. The main issue to these desperate women and married couples is that they can not seem to make a children naturally and they need some professional help. We all know that fertility specialists can give you a better hope of becoming pregnant with either a single baby or even multiples and by knowing that, we can conclude that Nadya did use a fertility specialist to become pregnant with her octuplets and that this was not done naturally.

Looking at all three texts, I do believe we live in a culture of assertion because when something unsual happens, we all want an answer of why it happened and who/what is the reason on why it happened. Many professionals, bioethicists, and doctors are all scratching their heads wanting to know why and they all want an answer. I can't even imagine how many questions have been asked to Kamrava and Nadya in wanting them to explain why they chose to do this and wanting to know the reasons behind their decision and when we don't get that answer, we automatically feel shut out and somewhat irritated by them and their ignorance in answering a single question. Even when we do get an answer from either two of them, we still ask why?

Unit 2 Proposal...maybe

Ok so here's the thing, I still have no clue what I want to spend six weeks on. I mean, yeah the "Octo-mom" is very VERY interesting and is still going on right now in our society and is veeery controversial. If I do decide to do my unit 2 proposal over the birth of octuplets from a SINGLE woman, I will most likely get my primary resources through the Los Angeles Times, possibly interviews done between the octuplet mother and a newscaster, and any other California newspaper, even though this is an event known around the country I believe that most of the best stories will be found in California.
I chose this topic because the whole idea of artificial insemination and invtiro still boggles my mind and I really believe that I need to focus on one event that has happened under that subject/topic because yes there are MANY cases of multiple births ( twins, triplets, etc. ) but why would a fertility specialist insert 6 embryos? Is there something going on in this practice that we don't know about? By focusing on one event that happened as a result of this practice ( and a very touchy subject as that ) I hope to help others better understand how others feel about all this, how I personally feel about this, and also I just wish to see why some people choose and decided to go down this path in order to become pregnant.

Like I said, i'm not 100% sure if this is what I want to do for my unit 2 proposal, but at least I have a strong idea in what I might want to do.

In Class: Free write

You know, I read all of chapters 5 and 6 and I understand the parts of rhetorical analysis and how I should go about doing my unit 2 topic, but I just don't know where to start. There are jsut so many things going on right now in the world and the thing is is that we have to choose one thing that's going on in our life right now. Intense to me. I did get some good feedback from my blog posting last week about the woman who had 8 children through Invitro. I'm thinking about using this as my unit 2 paper just because i'm more interested in the medical field and especially when things go haywire in the medical field or I might find something else to use as my topic for my unit 2 paper. Who knows. I have so much going on in my life right now and I don't even know where to begin, let alone this unti 2 paper that'll take weeks to finish. I am looking forward to spring break though because I get to go to california with my bf Matt and we will be actually skipping friday so we can fly down there and we wont be coming back until the 21st. My sister will also be gone too as well so me and my sister ( my moms only two children ) will be gone! Sad :(. My sister will actually be out of the country as she is going on her second year anniversary trip to London.

Hope she has fun. So my mom's birthday is also coming up soon ( this thursday ) and all she wants for her birthday is a coffee pot. Yeah right! It's always hard to find a gift for her because she never tells you what she wants but then on the other hand she always gets disappointed with the gifts she receives...yeah I don't understand it either.

Anyways, I hope this day gets better. I also hope that I will udnerstand what exactly it is that I need to do for this unti 2 paper. I have some studying to do for Biology...fun....