She doesn't know what she thinks! I'm with MCHebert on this one.

"A lot of people have been disappointed in their spiritual leaders' response to their questions." Well, a lot of children have been disappointed in their parent's response to their request for a new puppy. That doesn't mean the answer was wrong, but often the disappointing answer is the better one. I just don't see a lot of thoughtfulness here.

"Well, that's it for me. If this is the person I'm going to have to talk to when I'm faced with having to reduce a quadruplet pregnancy, he's not my guy." She doesn't mention considering his point, she just seems to reject it because it's not waht she wants to hear. She should have at least listened to her Rabbi. Did the conversation give her pause at all? Did she even consider, perhaps, only implanting TWO?

"I'm probably one of the few people who wouldn't criticize the 60-year-old woman who ended up going to South Africa and having IVF and having twins recently." Well, she might consider it, because it's something that goes against nearly everyone's moral compass, and with good reason.

Then there's the question of the 7 'extra' embryos ... no forethought there at all, huh? Even if she let the gay cousin have a couple, he'd have to find someone with a womb first, and then that woman might want to keep the baby! Or if you're OK with abortion, just have 7 easy abortions all at once, no? What if her kids find out (before inheriting them, that is) and wonder why mommy is keeping their brothers and sisters frozen? That'll creep the kids out real good! My feeling is that you have to really think these things through BEFOREHAND.

And the question of spending a ton of money to produce a couple of kids when that money could have gone to save hundreds of already existing kids? Well, maybe it's in the book but not the interview. Likewise the question of spending a ton of money to produce a couple of kids when human population is shooting up and most of the other creatures of the earth are facing extinction. Again, maybe it's in the book but not the interview.

She asks a few good questions but then seemingly doesn't so much as pause for the answers. She just seems to me like another yuppie gliding semi-cluelessly through life; I would think that would be difficult in a situation like this but she seems to have managed it. And then wrote a book!

Perhaps if this interview/book review was twice as long, some of these things could have been addressed; but then Salon would have to PAY for the result instead of getting FREE pages of Letters to sell ads on. Of course in reality, it only has to be long enough to have a paying link to the book on Amazon. And if this was a proper book review, maybe we'd have a better idea of how the author addresses the really major issue of "should we be doing this IVF thing AT ALL?" Because "I want babies!" ISN'T an answer to that question, and that's the only thing Kohl seems to know for certain.

.. pretty much sounds like she's having an orgasm when she's having an orgasm.

Maybe you could record her and have it played in the dolphin tank at Marine World and see what happens.

Neither one of 'em.

Not exactly butt-ugly, but there should be ground rules and an initial detemination of attractiveness in such a 'contest'.

There, I've just written more than the subject deserves.