"Selective reduction is one of the most unpleasant facts of fertility medicine, which has helped hundreds of thousands of couples have children but has also produced a sharp rise in high-risk multiple pregnancies. There is no way to know how many pregnancies achieved by fertility treatment start out as triplets or quadruplets and are quietly reduced to something more manageable. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which publishes an annual report on fertility clinic outcomes, does not include selective-reduction figures because of the reluctance to report them.
The industry doesn't publish them, either. "This is a very sensitive topic," says David Grainger, president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, the membership group for IVF clinics. It's sensitive, personally, for patients, but also politically, for doctors."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501730.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national
Is this right?
2007-05-22 18:33:06 · 8 answers · asked by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Seattlefan - Ah, an excellent example of cultural relativism. So if tomorrow a law to murder homeless people was passed, you would no longer find it morally unacceptable? Come now, let us reason together.
2007-05-22 18:51:54 · update #1
I agree with the guy above me abortion is abortion, equaling murder.
PS .....Selective reduction and having to chose to do this has to be not only hard but, in a way defeating the gift of getting pregnant. Take what God gives you. If you get pregnant~great if not~if not, it's for a reason. People can't except being told no. Playing God with medicine makes a lot of problems we don't really need . And this is one of them.
2007-05-22 18:39:12 · answer #1 · answered by SDC 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have an IVF baby who is the dearest thing in the world to me. Three years ago when trying to conceive we told our doctor that we didn't want twins and he encouraged us to put back just one embryo (leaving others frozen). We were very fortunate because we got pregnant the first cycle this way, but our clinic has had pretty good success rates with just one or two embyro transfers, and even then discouraged higher order transfers. I am an atheist. I do not believe in immortal souls. I think an embyro is just a clump of cells and no more "alive" than any other clump of living cells in our body. I think abortion must be kept safe and legal and the decision to abort must be up to a woman and her doctor. But I also think that every abortion is a tragedy, and that we must find ways to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
2016-05-20 10:22:28 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not up to you or me, except when it directly involves you or me. Right and wrong are purely human concepts which change drastically across time and different cultures. Three hundred years ago, many people thought there was nothing wrong with owning other people, either as indentured servants or as slaves. That stance has changed. Hangings used to be viewed publicly, but almost every state now considers it "cruel and unusual". Duels were once legally protected. The list goes on and on, but my point is made. Right and wrong are irrelevant concepts, since they will change time and time again. The law is all that matters.
2007-05-22 18:46:01 · answer #3 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
If your question is: Is it right to allow fertilized eggs to die or to otherwise make sure they do not develop? The answer would have to be no...it would not be right to do that. Human life is human life. Man is messing with things according to man's morality...not Gods. There has to be a better way.
2007-05-22 18:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You should ask this in Ethics, or Law........
In my opinion, they are reduced to prevent the death of babies and mother. We are not biologically capable of producing "Litters" of babies without risk. I find it very acceptable.
Atheist.
FYI: Most often when this happens, the mother has over six eggs that took root. I will say, for the record that I am against abortion when the abortion is used strictly as a form of birth control. Meaning when women use abortion as their choice when having unprotected sex.
This reducing is, as I stated before, not the same to me.
2007-05-22 18:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by Star 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Killing 3 babies instead of all 4 is of no differing morality to me. Abortion is abortion is abortion.
2007-05-22 18:36:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
NO It's the same thing as abortion...no wonder they can't have kids!!
2007-05-22 18:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Abortion is wrong in any case
2007-05-22 18:37:47 · answer #8 · answered by † H20andspirit 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋