The latest revolting and callous abortion fad for a mother of twins is to abort one of them if having both is likely to be too much bother.<\/p>\n
The preferred euphemism for this is \u201cSelective reduction\u201d.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n Like so many other couples these days, the Toronto-area business executive and her husband put off having children for years as they built successful careers. Both parents were in their 40s \u2014 and their first son just over a year old \u2014 when this spring the woman became pregnant a second time. Seven weeks in, an ultrasound revealed the Burlington, Ont., resident was carrying twins. \u201cIt came as a complete shock,\u201d said the mother, who asked not to be named. \u201cWe\u2019re both career people. If we were going to have three children two years apart, someone else was going to be raising our kids. … All of a sudden our lives as we know them and as we like to lead them, are not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n She soon discovered another option: Doctors could \u201creduce\u201d the pregnancy from twins to a singleton through a little-known procedure that eliminates selected fetuses \u2014 and has become increasingly common in the past two decades amid a boom in the number of multiple pregnancies\u2026..<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m absolutely sure I did the right thing,\u201d she said. \u201cI had read some online forums, people were speaking of grieving, feeling a sense of loss. I didn\u2019t feel any of that. Not that I\u2019m a cruel, bitter person … I just didn\u2019t feel I would be able to care for (twins) in a way that I wanted to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Not cruel? What do you call this, then:<\/p>\n Fetal reductions are most commonly conducted by inserting an ultrasound-guided needle through the mother\u2019s abdomen and into the uterus, injecting a potassium chloride solution into the chosen fetus or fetuses, stopping their hearts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The “chosen fetus” is an interesting turn of phrase: two of our children – now adults – are twins. If “selective reduction” had been an option 30 years ago and their parents non compos mentis, which would have been the “chosen fetus”, I find myself wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest revolting and callous abortion fad for a mother of twins is to abort one of them if having both is likely to be too much bother. The preferred euphemism for this is \u201cSelective reduction\u201d. From here: Like so … Continue reading