The news caused a crisis.
Meehan and Dysarz are Roman Catholic. Although they describe their attendance at the Cathedral of Christ the King as sporadic, they consider themselves devout. They're opposed to abortion.
They wrestled with the issue: How could they endanger the woman who had agreed to have their children? Ultimately, Meehan and the surrogate mother made the decision to abort one of the fetuses.
"It was the best thing medically, but the hardest thing I ever did," he said.
It nearly split the couple up, said Dysarz, who left home for 24 hours to think.
"At first, all I could think about was that it was murder, but then I realized that all the babies might die if we didn't go ahead with the reduction," he said. If it was murder in his mind, then it was a baby being killed, not a 'fetus-it'. The move to kill at least one out of five about fits the 20% / 80% of Americans who believe abortion is wrong ... what's one baby slaughtered out of five? The whole process of in-vitro fert is flawed with the disposal of 'unwanted' or extra new life. Any bets on how long this 'couple' will remain together to raise these children? If it is for life, I applaud them, but I still don't think it is right to bring children into such a 'home'. ... Then again, there are tens-of-thousands of 'homes' headed by heterosexual folks who abuse and neglect their children. [Interesting times in which we live, don'tcha think?]