Fourteen kids should be an amazing, touching piece to write about. Instead, it’s disgusting to even discuss. This woman, Nadya Suleman, has created much debate on whether what she is doing is healthy or not. There are two points that should be made from this atrocious ordeal. One, what is the mother thinking? Two, what are the doctors thinking?

On Jan 26, she gave birth to octuplets. This isn’t your natural, wham, bam, wow how did those eggs become octuplets type of deal. No, it’s through in vitro, an artificial insemination that helps couples or mothers that cannot conceive through any other way. She already had six kids before this, now add eight more and it’s baffling to see such recklessness from this woman.

Let’s start with this woman, or the mother. There is a great understanding that women are stronger now with the whole female independence ideal at work. So not having a man is great. More power to the women that believe in that. But having a total of 14 kids without any male or female spouse is mind-boggling. How is there going to be order within the household? Isn’t it going to be a little stressful for a mother to take care of 14 kids on her own? It has to be.

In an interview with NBC’s Ann Curry, she tries to argue that society is taking a harsh look at her. Her justification for wanting such a huge family is because “[she] just longed for certain connections.” Really? That is the reason why you would put eight babies, weighing from 1 pound, 8 ounces to 3 pounds, 4 ounces in jeopardy. It doesn’t make sense.

And how is this woman going to support this big family? Oh that’s right, by the sympathy of marketing her babies. According to the Times of London, this woman hired Killeen Furtney Group to help her with this endeavor. So let’s get the story straight, a proud, educated woman is going to get by raising her babies by asking for our support? She’s going to whore out her kids for film deals to get some baby food into their mouths? Is that a way for a mother, in any damn situation, to help her kids?

This leads to the second point, what were the doctors’ thinking? Is this the whole “I’m God” mentality they are associating themselves with now? Doctors are supposed to be the ethical ones, the ones that know better than their patients. Maybe they aren’t. Maybe it’s whatever the patient wants, the patient gets. This isn’t “Nip/Tuck” where breast implants are roaming the streets of Hollywood; these are kids, little embryos that will have a beating heart soon.

Maybe we are being duped. Maybe this woman does know what she’s talking about. Maybe the life she wants is to be rich by herself and not with another lover. To have babies through artificial insemination, shower us with love so that we, in return, will buy all the books and movies she shoves down our throats. Maybe this woman is smart after all.

Or maybe this woman is reckless, idiotic and willing to risk her own kid’s lives because she wants that connection she’s been longing to have. One thing is for certain; this woman needs to have common sense slapped back into her.