but what disturbed me more were the ethical “dilemmas” that Cuddy and House were left discussing.

Disturbing, b/c it is too close to home, that sometimes doctors care more about the fetus growing inside of the woman than the woman who is actually that doctor’s patient (am I being clear?). Until that fetus is no longer depending on that woman for life and blood the woman is the doctor’s patient, not the fetus (unless the doctor happens to be a Ped). Cuddy’s decision in that situation was obviously a case of a conflict of interest. Cuddy should not have been allowed to make decisions involving the mother and fetus’ life. Now, I don’t remember, but in one of his snarky moments, I believe House told her that they should deliver the baby, which, in all seriousness would have been the right call. There are some other complicated details there, but there is a serious tendency for doctors to act as though the mother is a disposable incubator, and those are the ones that aren’t waiting to take the babies home for themselves.

Mostly, I’m annoyed that they went there. Especially in reinforcing this whole “single career woman desperate to be a mother at any cost” meme in the character of Cuddy. Why the hell can’t there be a single woman with a career who is not depicted as an emotional wreck jumping to the tick of her biological clock?