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That's the risk you run when you take fertility drugs.

No, it's not. When you take fertility drugs, you get regular ultrasound checks to see how many follicles (containing eggs) are developing. If you have too many, and you're not doing IVF (where the number of embryos returned to the uterus can be limited) you cancel the cycle and you do NOT inseminate.

Of course there are some short-sighted people who decide that they already spent a few hundred dollars on drugs and don't want to cancel and have to spend a few more hundred dollars on another cycle, and so ignore their doctors' warnings and go ahead and risk a high order multiple pregnancy with all the huge risks to the babies' health and huge medical and child care costs.

First off...fertility drugs are not a "few hundred dollars" each month. Try a few thousand. Second... at the u/s they measure each follicle and supposedly the ones that are a certain size are the only ones who should fertilize.
Also, my dr. did not advise me to cancel my IUI. I had 11 follicles, 3 of which were large enough to fertilize. the other 8 where considered too small. We proceeded with the iui procedure. The u/s after my iui showed that the 3 large follices DID NOT ovulate and that the rest, "too small" ones did. I am now pregnant with quintuplets (I'm not asking for the government's help...the babies are a responsibility that my husband and I take very seriously.) that I should never have gotten pregnant with, let alone pregnant at all. My Reproductive Endocrinologist was profoundly amazed when he saw my 5 on the u/s screen at my very first appt. My chances of losing one was very good, yet I am still pregnant with all 5 of my wonderful children. When it is a less than 1% chance of conceiving quads and an even smaller percent of having quints or higher, it is a miracle.