Other people's choices are for them, not me.

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Legally, I think selective reduction (the process of aborting some but not all of the fetuses a woman is carrying) has to be legal. Morally, going to great lengths to conceive (via IVF) and then aborting one of two healthy fetuses because you only want one does not sit well with me (higher levels of multiples are significantly less disquieting, because they present clear and present danger to both mother and children. The jury is out on twins). I can't tell you why it bothers me so much more than abortion of a singleton, or twins for that matter, but it does.

This guy, however, is an asshole:

In 2004, however, Evans publicly reversed his stance, announcing in a major obstetrics journal that he now endorsed twin reductions. For one thing, as more women in their 40s and 50s became pregnant (often thanks to donor eggs), they pushed for two-to-one reductions for social reasons. Evans understood why these women didn’t want to be in their 60s worrying about two tempestuous teenagers or two college-tuition bills. He noted that many of the women were in second marriages, and while they wanted to create a child with their new spouse, they did not want two, especially if they had children from a previous marriage. Others had deferred child rearing for careers or education, or were single women tired of waiting for the right partner. Whatever the particulars, these patients concluded that they lacked the resources to deal with the chaos, stereophonic screaming and exhaustion of raising twins.

You see ladies, whether or not raising an additional baby is right for you depends on the sum total situation of every lady who is getting pregnant, or at least every lady who's getting pregnant via IVF. If they're mostly young stay at home moms married to their first husbands, who Dr. Evans has calculated would easily be able to care for two babies, then clearly your insistence that you can only handle one is whining. I especially love the remark about remarriage.

And this is why we don't make laws based on my sense of disquiet. Any rule I could make about "acceptable" abortion would be bound to leave at least one woman with a pregnancy and eventually a baby that she didn't want and couldn't handle. And even if I was somehow right, and she "should" carry the fetus to term, she doesn't think so, and carrying a parasite that your hormones are telling you you should love and protect above all else is one of the worst tortures I can imagine.