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Sorry but this quack knows nothing of what she speaks of. Clomid will only increase a woman's odd of twins from the normal 1.2% to somewhere in the range of 5-10%. It has no influence on higher order multiples. And the costs of most higher-order multiples are covered by private insurance (and childhood leukemia costs them far more than h.o. multiples anyway), publicity donations and donated services. None of which has anything to do with a desire to have twins which many women share.
As for YAS, at 35 she is not in the 'advanced maternal age' category. In fact, she's increasingly average and not a primagravida so not part of those statistics. After age 40 Clomid seems (studies still being done) to become less effective in *some* women. Perimenopause begins asymptomatically so a woman may, after 40, be beginning her fertility decline without knowing it and in those cases the body would be used to the suppressed estrogen and wouldn't respond to Clomid's actions. By no means is this to say that all women over 40 are in that boat, only that a doctor would, to save money, time and effort for all parties, be wise to do some basic hormone checks for perimenopause before treating with Clomid. At 35, unless you have a family history of early menopause, there's no reason to even think of such things.
Medical terms should not be tossed around by people whose education consists entirely of Google. It is the cliff notes of human biology and medicine.
Also, as a pharma let me tell you all that there is no plan to further restrict Clomid, it's classification is not changed to reflect use or abuse any more than any other drug, only it's risk rating and prescribed usage. That's just scare-mongering, a trick of the ignorant but passionate.

Take the rantings with a grain of salt...they're worth only slightly less than that anyway ;o)

And I'm in the UK with my four lovely drug-free birthed children and won't cost anyone in the US a penny either. It's grand. Matter of fact, I give money to the US by ordering some of my medicines from there LOL....now if only they'd use it to devise a basic coverage of health care for all and stop standing on their little health-elite soapboxes ;o)

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