In a videotaped squabble with her mother posted Monday on a gossip Web site, the woman who gave birth to octuplets said she had no choice but to use the embryos she had because her only other option was to destroy them.
“I’m not going to destroy the embryos, period. Done, done, done,” Nadya Suleman told her mother in a video posted on RadarOnline.com. “You can’t go back and alter the past.”
Angela Suleman had told her daughter that “you should have considered your six other children” before going through the in vitro fertilization procedure that led to her to give birth to another eight children last month.
“They were frozen and you did not have to do anything,” Angela Suleman said.
“They were lives,” her daughter responded. “… You either use them or destroy them.”
Nadya Suleman said donating the embryos to someone else was not an option. “I couldn’t even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world” without knowing them, she said.
A judge says Peter Falk’s daughter can meet with her ailing father, who reportedly has Alzheimer’s disease.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aviva Bobb on Monday granted Catherine Falk a 30-minute supervised meeting with her father within 30 days.
Catherine Falk’s attorney says she has not seen the former “Columbo” actor in six months. She has filed to establish a conservatorship for her father. Her attorney said Monday he does not know to what degree Peter Falk’s illness has progressed.
Associated Press
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