I have not read that she took welfare, but she certainly takes advantage of her parents.
I don't think she should go to jail. I do think what she did was terribly wrong, and she should face public rebukes, if for no other reason than to make the next mentally disturbed woman who gets this idea to think twice, and certainly, in the unlikely chance that a licensed, reputable doctor did this, have him or her not repeat this travesty of technology or whatever.
Some other big families have them one or two at a time. I do not believe in a lot of reproductive technology. I would prefer people took their chances,but that is not going to happen. I do not believe in people having children without husbands or wives. I think they can adopt if they pass a test, which should be applied to anyone thinking of having a baby. Like I said, I am Catholic and there are things I am supposed to believe in and not supposed to believe in, which I have extreme difficulty with, but I will say that some large families can be done very well and produce some very wonderful people.
My main thing against single women having babies on purpose (I am not talking about accidents of passion etc...I think society can absorb a few of those) is that you do not know in advance which children absolutely need fathers, and which do not. You can not predict it. And saying I will be both mother and father (wretch) or I have enough love to make up for a lack of a father..wretch again. You can not make up for the lack of a father if the child truly needs a father..and I would guess around 50% come into that category.
Some children do not need fathers or seem to be OK without them. Some do not need mothers. Some can be left out in the woods and raised by wolves and will do just fine. But you do not know in advance. And if you can only find abusive or irresponsible men to reproduce with, forego it altogether and try to adopt. There is no excuse for going into that situation either. We don't get to have everything we want in any quantity we want. Period.