"Tron"  wrote in message
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> "geopelia"  skrev i melding
> news:Ve%1e.13559$1S4.1401850{at}news.xtra.co.nz...
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> >>
> > If men tried to imitate women's achievements maybe a man would have
given
> > birth to ten babies (decuplets?) by now!
>
> What makes this an achievement? The decision to have decaplets? Getting
> pregnant? The willpower to squeeze out ten eggs at a time? A rarity, for
> sure, and tough .... but a biological event, not an achievement.

It's the result of fertility drugs,INVENTED BY MEN. Naturally these huge
litters never occur.




>
> Even higher numbers of foetuses have been carried, the most so far being
15.
> Decaplets have been born, both from ten foetuses and from more with only
ten
> surviving. Ten is highest number of children that have ever been born
>
(http://multiples.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fmypage.
direct.ca%2Fc%2Fcsamson%2Fmultiples.html).
>
> So perhaps you could get the facts right before you attempt something as
> difficult as sarcasm.
>
> T
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