[Freepdonia]

I'm confident she has had mass quantities of Dennys eggs.

[kimchi lover]

What difference does it make? They are HER children now.
I am an adoptive mom and my son is MY SON. It doesn't matter how he joined our family he IS family.

[Elvis van Foster]

Donor eggs? It's the donor sperm that's more likely.

[mabelkitty]

Ugh. This is just too gross.
Johnny runs for Senate and buys a new family for political momentum.

[silverleaf]

The story about how Jack and Emma came to be conceived is their story, and a story to be shared only with them and only by their parents- not fodder for speculation and politicization.

[MHT]

Don't even go there---she claims she has gained weight from fertility problems trying to get those kids here. Also, she is the mother of a deceased child and those last two would probably not have been here had Wade not died in 1996.

Her children, regardless of how classlessly her husband outs the Cheney daughter, are off-limits. It's a double-standard but the Dems would be the first to impose it. Furthermore, as a person who has lost a child, she is afforded a license of familial privacy that is sacred. Any comment about her family in any way would make her a martyr, and martyrdom is one thing we don't want to give them.

[cubreporter]

This is not our business and nor do I want it to be.

[Paul_B]

> Of course, there are personal considerations that may loom much larger than politics. Infertility is a tremendously painful experience and many who have suffered from it don't talk about it with anyone—sometimes not even family members or close confidants. Then, too, for most parents, the privacy of the children is of utmost importance. The Edwardses, if they did use donor eggs, may or may not plan to tell their children

Remarkable hypocrisyy. Ms. Edwards publicly opines that the Cheneys might be ashamed of their lesbian daughter, yet they keep the egg donation issue off the table to protect their own kids?

Or is this just more political calculation from the Party of cynicism, knowing this issue would be explosive among Evangelicals and serious RCs?

[olivia3boys]

Well, only about 25% of IVF patients end up with any leftover embryos to freeze.

So I'd say it's very likely she has none frozen.

[JanetteS]

Hmmm...I think I have a problem with the children being "fair game." It's one thing if they are slanderous jack@sses (Ex: Ron Reagan and Chris Heinz) and another if they are innocent small children or do rally the troops stops (Mary Cheney and Chelsea Clinton.)

We have enough class that we can win this without slinging this mud.

[SlowBoat407]

Politically irrelevant.

[WomanofStandard]

I wouldn't even go here. If Cheney's grown daughter's are considered out of bounds, this is doublely so. These are real live children who may 'hear' things if this subject were to get too public.

[arasina]

Why do you feel the need to stoop so low as to post a thread such as this?

[isom35]

"If so, where are the unused embryos?" if you knew, what was going to be your next move?

[Arec Barrwin]

Apparently, the Edwards were lying back in 2004 as well.