Reducing Twins to Singles -- A Woman's Choice?

Page 2: Reducing Twins to Singles -- A Woman's Choice? - ABC News: After her own experience with unexpected multiples, Dr. Ross's concern lies not in the moral questionability of twin reductions, but in the psychological welfare of the couples. Though she did not opt to reduce her triplets, she says she has seen the psychological toll that reduction can take on parents.

'At the time you make the decision to reduce, parents don't know what the future will hold. Some of the families go on to experience a lot of grief. At every milestone for the child they decided to keep, there is this ghost in the room, this feeling that there should have been two of them,' she says. . . . 'We need to educate couples so that they know that if they are only willing to have one baby, they should only be transferring one embryo at a time.'

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