Very good article. People need to be educated on the many anti-life practices that go on in the name of artifical or lab-assisted reproduction. I have encountered genuine ignorance on what happens to the “extra embryos” or even that more than one gets created for each one carried to term.
What is this 'dignity' thing? The word has meaning and it sure isn't being used in its proper sense anymore. Getting kind of conceptually fuzzy out here in Nominalism Land.
You might notice that "selective reduction" is more likely to be necessary with fertility drugs than with IVF. With IVF, while you can't control how many embryos will implant, you can control how many are given the opportunity to implant at one time.
With fertility drugs, a competent fertility specialist can tell if too many eggs are being released in a given cycle and recommend not attempting fertilization during that cycle.
Multiple births become exponentially more dangerous for the mother and for the babies as the number of babies increases. If God had intended for women to have "litters", He would have given them larger wombs.
I think sometimes couples and/or doctors agree to these large multiple births for personal glory & publicity, without considering the dangers involved to the mothers and babies.