I was just reading a question on Yahoo!Answers about a reduction in pregnancy. A woman pregnant with quads through IVF says she doesn't know if she's quiet capable of supporting four children, so doctor has "offered" reduction. (Hmmmm...seems more and more of these cases are popping up since the Octuplet mom). Anyhoo, isn't reduction the same as an abortion? Some have said yes, others say no. If you reduce the number of babies, you abort a certain number, hence the term abortion! Is that actually that hard to comprehend? I don't understand reducing the number in a pregnancy anyway. How can it be safely done without causing some risk to the other fetuses? Even having a routine amnio during pregnancy comes with risk, so surely aborting others around the fetus would be harmful. And besides, how do YOU choose which ones stay and which ones go? How do you really answer to that? Can you imagine meeting those children one day, the questions of "Why not me?" Oh, that would just haunt me forever.
So I guess I'm just wondering if reduction is really abortion?
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You know my answer to that question: No doubt about it! Yes it is abortion, which is a scientific sounding way to say murder, plain and simple. It's amazing how humans play God and then try to justify it.
ReplyDeleteI know. It just makes me cringe to even think about it. And it all results from irresponsibility on both the doctor and patient's parts....
ReplyDeleteWhat bothers me more about this than the abortion vs. reduction aspect is why a IVF doctor would implant that many embryos in the first place. I understand that it increases the chances of one taking, and makes it easier to have success rather than just implanting two and having neither of them take, but really, why implant more than (1) the number of children the mother wants and (2) the number she can and should safely carry? Ug!
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