I didn't see Idiocracy - but I did read Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons," and Miss Suleman does seem familiar as a result.

But she's not really significant in the greater scheme of things. Yes, she's going to cost taxpayers a bundle - but still a drop in the bucket compared to the overall cost of welfare. No, her doctor never should have helped her do this. But people like her are too rare to make it worth writing new laws - and trying to do so based on extreme examples like her ignores the difficulty of figuring out where to draw the lines.

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