LOS ANGELES — In a videotaped squabble with her mother, 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 an interview taped last week and posted by . “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 undergoing another in-vitro fertilization procedure using previously frozen embryos.
“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.
On ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday, a former boyfriend of Suleman’s, Denis Beaudoin, said he wants DNA testing to determine whether he is the father of the octuplets and her older children. Suleman says he is not.
