| 21. | That means they are given the choice between killing fetuses _ selective reduction _ and having disabled babies, he says.
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| 22. | A more controversial technique, employed after there are multiple embryos or fetuses, is " selective reduction " to remove some.
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| 23. | Most physicians agree that selective reduction, the removal of fertilized eggs between 9 and 12 weeks gestation, is the last resort.
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| 24. | The McCaugheys declined selective reduction to reduce the number of infants, saying that they would " put it in God's hands ".
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| 25. | For them, a successful fertilization may result in a choice between multiple births or selective reduction of fetuses after conception, doctors said.
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| 26. | When the McCaugheys learned early in Bobbi's pregnancy that she had seven fetuses in her womb, doctors suggested they consider selective reduction.
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| 27. | Dr . Mark Evans, a New York City-based obstetrician-geneticist, and a group of doctors, developed the procedure for selective reduction in the 1980s.
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| 28. | Nationwide, the nearly 300 US clinics reported performing 345 such " selective reductions " of pregnancies in 1993, the most recent year available.
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| 29. | There are no statistics on how many selective reductions are done, though one estimate is that there have been 4, 000 performed worldwide.
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| 30. | Unless there is a medical reason, in Phoenix a woman can't have a selective reduction performed unless she is carrying quads or more.
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