Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud

Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by telotortium on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:21AM (#33667211)

Freezing eggs is not some painless or certain process. She'd still have to wait until getting out of prison, at which point she'd be old enough that there's a significant chance that she wouldn't be able to conceive. She might be able to use surrogacy, but there are many issues with that (medical, but also legal and moral), and she'd be elderly by the time her children graduated from college.

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by kkielhofner on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:47AM (#33667347)

Fair enough but there are consequences for your actions that shouldn't invoke kids growing up without a parent. I spent the first 10 years of my life like these kids will - without parents. Needless to say it's not great.

If IVF doesn't work out for whatever reason there's adoption. Let's try to remember this fraud could have very well ended up killing people. Not being able to have biological children and adopting is minor by comparison.

Her life expectancy should take her well into her 80s, and, at the risk of turning this into a "boo-hoo session" my dad died when I was 26 and he was 61. So even after all of this she'd likely see her kids get married, have children, etc which is more than some people who didn't commit fraud and gamble with people's lives get.

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by 10hr on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:37AM (#33667630)

As someone raised by parents with mental problems, I also share your disgust here.

The children here having resources helps, but having a mom + dad is important and there's pretty much no way around that.

It being her "last chance" doesn't excuse the behavior.

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for f... by kkielhofner on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:18AM (#33667867)

First, I’m truly sorry for that.

Participation on this thread has been interesting - you’re the first person I’ve seen to also share your own experience with how this will impact these children.

We’re disgusted because we know.

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