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China's 'Octomom': A family with 8 babies was stirring some outrage and also debate about surrogate births and the country's one-child policy. (Dec. 30)

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SHOTLIST:SHANGHAI TV - NO ACCESS CHINAGuangdong Province - 22 December 2011++4:3++1. STILL picture taken from Internet showing eight babies dressed in white outfits 2. STILL picture taken from Internet showing babies lying on ground, forming a star shaped pattern 3. STILL picture taken from Internet showing women holding babies 4. Exterior of photo studio where portrait of eight babies was taken as part of its advertising campaign 5. Mid of photo studio staff6. Wide of residential compound where family with eight babies were allegedly living 7. Back shot of reporter knocking on door of family's apartment (no one answers according to Shanghai TV)AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYBeijing - 30 December 2011++16:9++8. Close of web page with internet address of a surrogacy website being typed in the address bar9. Close of web page with picture of a baby10. Pan across photos on website11. Pan of babies and foetuses on website CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINAGuangdong - 24 December 2011++4:3++12. Wide of newborn intensive care unit in hospital13. Nurse treating baby14. Close of baby15. SOUNDBITE (English translation over Mandarin) Liao Xinbo, Deputy director of Guangdong Health Department: ++Audio partly overlaid with shots ++"Now we are looking out for evidence showing that three-star level hospitals or highly-qualified hospitals do this kind of thing. Once we do, we will punish them in the harshest way, revoke the hospital and doctors' license." 16. Wide of people queueing at hospital to pay for treatment 17. Man holding baby 18. Wide of centre for reproductive medicine 19. Close of sign, reading: (English/Mandarin) "Centre for reproductive medicine"20. Various of poster showing sperm at different stages of development AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYBeijing - 29 December 2011++16:9++21. Wide of children's indoor play area22. Father holding baby under carousel 23. SOUNDBITE (English translation over Mandarin) Shen (full name not given), Father of a seven-month-old boy: "I don't know how these kids will grow up properly and how their parents can educate them and explain what happened to them when they were born. You can't treat children like pets."CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINAGuangdong - 24 December 2011 ++4:3++24. Pan from laboratory staff to screen showing data 25. Close of sample being studied in laboratory 26. Mid of woman in hospital bed 27. Wide of patients in hospital bedsCCTV - NO ACCESS CHINAFILE: Shanghai - 26 October 2011++4:3++28. Various of news conference by Shanghai Family Planning Committee CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINABeijing - 25 December 2011++4:3++++MUTE++29. STILL of Chinese propaganda poster encouraging the "one-child" policy, reading (Mandarin) "Implement the single-child policy, which continues the national policy."AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYBeijing - 29 December 2011++16:9++30. Mid of baby crawling SCRIPTCute photos, maybe.But in a land where the one child per family rule is enforced in law and in practice, this photography studio publicizing the pictures of eight babies belonging to a single family has unleashed a wave of reaction.Family members weren't answering the door to a local TV reporter who stopped by what's believed to be their home, understandably, given the outrage and perhaps potential consequences for their apparently illegally spending nearly a million yuan -- the equivalent of 160-thousand dollars -- in using two surrogate mothers to help them have the four boys and four girls.A regional health department official promised there WOULD be consequences if an investigation found the facilities in the area that helped ...SOTin Beijing parents at a childrens' play area disapproved of an 8-baby familySOTin the modern era, advances in medical science can help the wealthy in China have bigger families if they choose to evade the rules, and the internet can help them access information about how to do it.But officials say the government reaction so far has been to tighten the rules, rather than relaxing the one-child policy.(****END****)VIDEO PRODUCER/VOICER: Karen Sloan------------------------------VIDEO SOURCE: SHANGHAI TV/ AP TELEVISION/ CCTV --------------------------VIDEO APPROVAL: Samira Becirovic------------------------------VIDEO RESTRICTIONS: No Access China----------------------------------WIRE SOURCE: AP------------------------------------