By Dave Andrusko Some stories just “won’t go away,” and rightly so. The aftershocks of Ruth Padawer’s “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy” continues to be felt more than two months after her story first ran in the New York Times Magazine. Why? Why would “selectively...
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Killing one twin for convenience – where the ideology of “choice” leads
Editor’s note. This first appeared on the blog of Right to Life of Michigan "Selective reduction" is a euphemism to describe a procedure in which one or more unborn children are aborted in a multiple pregnancy. Potassium chloride is injected into the heart of the...
“Selective Reduction”: Barbaric, but not Uniquely So
By Dave Andrusko Just before we went on vacation, I ran a piece on Ruth Padawer’s extraordinary story in the New York Times Magazine, “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy” that produced a lot of feedback. Padawer’s LONG and carefully research story detailed the evolution of...
“Reducing” Twins to “Singletons”: the Erosion of an Ethical Demarcation
By Dave Andrusko We first wrote about “selective reduction” a long, long time ago. A t the time I remember discussing how the logic behind “reducing” the number of unborn babies—while talked about exclusively in terms of a woman carrying many, many babies—could never...