Octuplet Birth Dr Under Investigation

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Octuplet Birth Dr Under Investigation
Sat, 02-07-2009 - 11:13am

>"The Medical Board of California investigating the doctor — whom it did not name — to see if there was a "violation of the standard of care," board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said Friday."<
>""The revelation about one center treating her makes the treatment even harder to understand," said Arthur Caplan, bioethics chairman at the University of Pennsylvania. "They went ahead when she had six kids, knowing that she was a single mom ... and put embryos into her anyway."

In the United States, there is no law dictating the number of embryos that can be placed in a mother's womb. Multiple embroys(?*) can be implanted to improve the odds that one will take.

However, there are national guidelines which put the norm at two to three embryos for a woman of Suleman's age, in order to lessen the health risks to the mother and the chances of multiple births."<
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Octuplet Birth Doctor Under Investigation
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6825726

*embryos

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