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Octuplet mother launches online appeal for donations
Feb 12, 2009, 3:32 GMT
Los Angeles - Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman unveiled a new plan Wednesday to care for her brood of 14 amid growing concern that taxpayers could foot the bill for her medically enhanced reproduction.
The Los Angeles single mother unveiled a website with photos of the tiny babies and an appeal for donations.
The website at thenadyasulemanfamily.com was put together by Suleman's recently hired PR firm and includes links for paypal donations and an address where people can send checks.
The lime green website has a baby theme with rainbows, hearts and spelling blocks scattered among the photos of the babies. There's also one shot of of Suleman (from her NBC appearance) with the caption: 'Proud mother of 14.'
The online appeal came amid growing doubts about the unemployed Suleman's ability to support her children, as it emerged that she reportedly received food stamps for her six older children and government payments for three children with disabilities.
Suleman told NBC that she had no income besides student loans and that she paid more than 100,000 dollars of her own money to get the fertility treatment that led to the octuplets. The reports said that the bill for delivery and post-natal treatment of the still- hospitalized octuplets - estimated at 1.5 million to 3 million dollars - would be paid by the state medical care programme for low- income patients.
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Two links. One to leave a donation and the other to leave a comment. Notice you can't read the comments.
1. You already had six kids.
2. You can't solely provide for those six children.
3. You chose to implant so many eggs.
4. You chose to give birth to eight more children.
5. You chose to keep all 14 children instead of adoption.
Now you want donations to help raise these kids?
How about a big fat NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
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What a messFeb 12th, 2009 - 12:39:59
She should have her uterus removed and the doctor who caused this mess should have his license revoked.
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