Think: About Selective Reduction

"If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn't have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there's a natural order, then you don't want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner--in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me --and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.” This quote comes from “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy,” an article in the New York Times that focuses on a trend that began with an "intervention" in mega-pregnancies that has expanded to include a “quiet option” for women carrying twins: aborting one or more fetuses in a multiple pregnancy. Now even twins are considered "too much."