Image by Getty Images via Daylife By Valerie Tarico Reprinted from the Daily Kos . Most Americans who have any media access whatsoever know that last week a California woman with six prior children gave birth to octuplets . The details surrounding the birth ( six prior kids, solo unemployed parent, in vitro implantation of eight or more embryos, probable millions in taxpayer expenses ) are so extraordinary that they have provoked a normally taboo public conversation about whether childbearing can be immoral. Progressives rarely use the words moral and immoral. We’re too sophisticated for that. If some poor sod starts talking about truth and virtue or right and wrong or-- gods forbid-- good and evil, we get nervous and become, ahem, tolerant. It’s like bring up spirituality in a room full of atheists(who otherwise might be perfectly willing to talk about ethics and love and service and finding some meaning that transcends the boundaries of our small individual lives.) Occasionally we ...