Consequences:
More stuff coming out on the octuplet stuff.
The dirty secret that many fertility clinics don’t want people to notice is that they sell hope by the very expensive bucketful, and their stats / success rate is actually worse than advertised if you can get past the caveats and BS. But if the people don’t have hope, they won’t come into the clinic, and so on. So if the numbers *sound* impressive, and they’ve got a schtick about how they’re doing all this new and impressive stuff with machines that go *ping* so they MUST be doing special baby-giving stuff…trust me, we have experience with this.
The fertility doc in this case was a guy who was NOT doing well on his clinic; when I first heard of his ’special implant’ uterine implant proceedure, I went What The Heck, and turns out that it doesn’t work so well, but he believes in it and he really wants YOU to believe in it. The Octuplets’ Mom, apparently, is his star patient, and her success rate props up his numbers. Without her, he’s probably sunk. He’s also being sued by staff for fraud and stiffing them for large sums of pay. Looks like there’s tax fraud there, too, for taking payments in under the counter and not reporting them to the IRS.
My guess is that this is going to continue to unravel, and all sorts of people will end up in court or behind bars for fraud - any number of ways. This will not affect the woman with all those kids’ attitudes about what she did; she was on a mission and she’s serene as can be about everything in a God-will-provide manner. But the people who got her there will take a beating, and none of them seems to have thought this whole merry-go-round through very well as to where the consequences of their actions might lead them.
Me, I concern myself most towards the 14 kids. If the California DCFS doesn’t yank a number of them out of that house and into the system before it’s all over, I’ll be astonished - not because I want that to happen, but because the publicity levels are so high on this situation and taxpayer anger is high.