I consider myself pretty staunchly in the pro-choice camp, but this one gave me pause. The issue is selective abortion - reducing a pregnancy from twins to a singleton. It's not much of a debate in higher order pregnancies, where having triplets, for example, could pose a health threat to the mother and diminish the chances of any of the fetuses coming to term. The ethics get fuzzier when it's a matter not of health, but of convenience, and when the parents have already decided to have a child (just not two of them).
As in the general abortion debate, it's important to distinguish between two important yet fundamentally separate questions:
- Should it be legal?
- Would you personally be able to do it?
Tough one
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