What happens when a woman discovers she’s expecting twins, but doesn’t want more than one baby? According to new research, she could abort one of them.

In 2010, 85 women chose to have “selective reduction” abortions–meaning they were expecting multiple births, but chose to limit the number of births by aborting one or more of the children.

The rising use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) is partly to blame. IVF generally involves attempting to implant multiple embryos inside a woman in hopes that one of them will actually implant, leading to a pregnancy. However, it is not uncommon for more than one embryo to implant, which means that the mother could give birth to twins or triplets.

It goes without saying that we believe that “selective reduction” abortion is absolutely abhorrent. The Department of Health reports that 78% of these abortions were based on the belief that “there is substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.” In other words, the decision was not made based on life or health of the mother. It was simply based on a perceived risk that the child might be a burden.

This is a very dangerous slippery slope. We’ve posted articles in the past about the popularity of sex-selective abortions in other countries. If these trends continue, one has to ask “Where does it all stop?”

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