Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that between 2000 and 2006, Suleman's children accounted for five out of 24 live births to women under 35 who underwent the same procedure at Kamrava's clinic. (She had six children in all during that period, including a set of twins, which are counted as one live birth in CDC data.) The figures do not include 2005, when Kamrava did not file with the CDC.
Medical ethicists have questioned Dr. Michael Kamrava's implantation of six embryos in the in vitro fertilisation that produced the octuplets rather than the two generally regarded as desirable according to standards in the field. (Although in his defence, only two of those embryos produced the babies; the embryos split, producing a total of eight foetuses.)
It should be interesting how this story will play out.
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