On Jan. 26, Los Angeles mom, Nadya Suleman, made national news giving birth to octuplets. Now she’s stirred up controversy and debate about whether fertility treatments should be regulated. It turns out Suleman is 33, single, unemployed, lives with her mother — and already has six children. Knowing this, should her doc have allowed her to try and have eight babies at once? According to her mother, she only wanted “one more girl.”

Since the goal of most fertility treatments is to get one healthy baby — doctors usually implant a smaller number of fertilized embryos.

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