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In a statement issued to the Telegraph on Thursday, a spokeswoman for the governing body said: "We are looking into the matter to see if we can substantiate a violation of the standard of care" in the case of Nadya Suleman, who have birth to eight babies last week. "We will be making no further comment at this time".
The use of fertility treatment by unemployed single mother Miss Suleman, who already had six children aged between 2 and 7 at the time of the octuplets' conception, has sparked a fierce ethical debate.
A spokeswoman for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, a body that provides medical guidelines for fertility treatments, has called the 33-year-old's case "a grave error".
"It should not have happened", she said of the birth. "Eight children should not have been conceived and born".
Miss Suleman – who was discharged from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centre in Bellflower, California on Thursday - has not disclosed details of her reproductive assistance, but the babies were conceived by one of two methods, according to reports.
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