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New York Times Touts “Selective Reduction” as a “Half Abortion”
Life News ^ | August 10, 2011 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 08/10/2011 2:32:02 PM PDT by NYer

As if the new York Times couldn’t sink any further down the hole of warped and twisted pro-abortion activism, the Gray Lady is out with yet another “news” piece that moves the newspaper further beyond the pale.

Ruth Pawder is out today with a new story titled “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy,” that focuses on “selective reduction” – the euphemistic phrase given to name the destruction of one or more unborn children in a multiple pregnancy situation where a mother has more than one baby resulting from an IVF pregnancy involving the implantation of multiple human embryos.

The Times never makes it past the second paragraph before showing how “Jenny,” an IVF client, justifies the abortion of one of her twin babies because she didn’t conceive naturally. Jenny’s remarks to the Times are ghastly:

“Things would have been different if we were 15 years younger or if we hadn’t had children already or if we were more financially secure,” she said later. “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.”

But it’s Pawder’s description of Jenny’s actions to extinguish the live of one of her healthy babies that takes the cake for its offensiveness.

“She was 45 and pregnant after six years of fertility bills, ovulation injections, donor eggs and disappointment — and yet here she was, 14 weeks into her pregnancy, choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion,” Pawder writes.

The comment was shocking even to Wendy Wright, the former president of Concerned Women for America, who has been involved in the abortion debate for decades.

“This tragic outcome would have been foreseeable when ‘choice’ became the ultimate god,” she told LifeNews in response. “Yet I doubt that anyone conceived of something so horrible, that people would deliberately conceive children then deliberately abort them simply because they are children. Morality does not change with technology; the intensity of one’s moral decisions increase when beginning with the belief that ‘you can be like God.’”

Wright says the Times article “pulls back the curtain to reveal that women and doctors are choosing who to kill like a sniper decides who to shoot, based on short-term thinking, personal benefits and which victim is accessible. It begs us to question: when will hurting someone’s feelings by saying this is wrong become less important than valuing human life? Perhaps not until it is our own life at stake.”

But, for Pawder and the Times, “selective reduction” is not a big deal — because it’s just a little math.

“What is it about terminating half a twin pregnancy that seems more controversial than reducing triplets to twins or aborting a single fetus? After all, the math’s the same either way: one fewer fetus,” Pawder writes.

That’s the kind of eugenic attitude that the pro-life movement must overcome.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; choice; consumerism; embryos; eugenics; evil; fertility; fertilitytreatments; ivf; moralabsolutes; nyt; pregnancy; prolife; selectivereduction; testtubebabies

1 posted on 08/10/2011 2:32:10 PM PDT by NYer
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah

Ping!


2 posted on 08/10/2011 2:32:39 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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To: NYer; wagglebee

Prolife ping?


3 posted on 08/10/2011 2:37:51 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: NYer
because you feel like if there’s a natural order, then you don’t want to disturb it.

She has a point. Once you no longer believe in a "natural order," or once you DENY the very law of nature and nature's God, then why not just do anything at all that seems to suit you?

4 posted on 08/10/2011 2:47:54 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: NYer

I have a relative with triplets through IVF. They’re 4 now. Good kids. I’ll have to ask her which ones she wished she could have aborted. /s

Seriously, later on, you can tell the kid, “you were the lucky one we didn’t abort”! How horrible! Not that your twin died, but that we killed him/her!


5 posted on 08/10/2011 2:52:10 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: NYer

Blinkered beyond belief


6 posted on 08/10/2011 3:19:23 PM PDT by Lorianne
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7 posted on 08/10/2011 3:30:32 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: NYer

that’s just all kinds of messed up. how do these people live with themselves?


8 posted on 08/10/2011 3:32:06 PM PDT by Jeff Vader (Palin 2012)
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To: NYer

Children have become commodities.....farmed and traded like pork bellies.

It’s disgusting.


9 posted on 08/10/2011 4:05:01 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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My brain can't process these things.

She's 45, six years after fertility treatments and decides to kill one because of her age and future financial considerations?

This "consumerish" mentality is precisely what the Catholic Church warned about when IVF first came to market.

"Jenny" deserves to be barren. She wasn't satisfied with that she'd be given, prior children, she had to have more but-but-out of selfishness not love. I fear for all her children and any whose life this hideous woman wields power or influences.

10 posted on 08/10/2011 4:31:45 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: sodpoodle

Little surprise they grow up to act like animals (London riots).


11 posted on 08/10/2011 4:32:44 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

Youth gangs begin when parenting ends.

From Warren Jeff LDS pedophilia cult that banishes young boys - to single mothers in ghettos who use their children for income subsidies....we are witnessing a pandemic degradation of human beings.

God have mercy on the human race.


12 posted on 08/10/2011 4:50:21 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: NYer
Pinged from Terri Dailies


13 posted on 08/14/2011 11:17:31 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: MacMattico
I have a relative with triplets through IVF. They’re 4 now. Good kids. I’ll have to ask her which ones she wished she could have aborted. /s

How many eggs were actually fertilized?

14 posted on 08/14/2011 11:24:31 AM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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To: NYer

I honestly don’t know that. I know she said at one point they had 4 fertilized eggs and implanted, if that’s the correct word, them all. Later, tests showed 3 heartbeats. (The triplets)


15 posted on 08/14/2011 6:24:15 PM PDT by MacMattico
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