Twin reduction abortions: Why do they trouble pro-choicers? - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine: Reduction destroys this distinction [between embryos/fetuses and unborn children]. It combines, in a single pregnancy, a wanted and an unwanted fetus. In the case of identical twins, even their genomes are indistinguishable. You can't pretend that one is precious and the other is just tissue. You're killing the same creature to which you're dedicating your life.
That's the anguish of reduction: watching the fetus you spared become what its twin will never be. And knowing that the only difference between them was your will.
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