Fourteen is Thirteen Too Many

Almost everyone else in country has weighed in on Nadya Suleman, the Whittier California woman with six children who recently gave birth to eight more after in vitro fertilization, so why not The Sheriff?

But I cannot equal Tim Rutten's recent column in the L.A. Times on February 11, "The excesses of Nadya Suleman," in which Rutten refers to "the grotesque story of Nadya Suleman, the sad and disturbing serial mom whose apparent addiction to childbirth recently resulted in the delivery of octuplets."

But my two cents are that not only should we require any one who wants to have a child to apply for a license that the state only issues when the parents-to-be have taken prenatal care and child rearing classes and demonstrated mastery of the knowledge, BUT we should definitely regulate the fertility industry and require strict oversight not only of the parents-to-be, but of the physicians as well.

The medical board should strip the physician who oversaw Suleman's fertilization of his privileges to practice medicine. And we should consider adopting a version of China's law that would limit people like Nadya Suleman to only one child, if any.