A woman who became pregnant with twins while using in vitro aborted one twin and kept the other. She said:
“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.”
Ruth Padawer “The Two Minus One Pregnancy” New York Times Magazine, August 2011
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