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Social, political & biomedical ethics issues arise in selective ermination of pregnancy must be understood & evaluated. Need & demand for selective termination in fact is created & elaborated in response to prior technological intervention in women's reproductive processes. In Abortion pregnancy ends. Whereas in selective termination pregnancy continues with one or two fetuses still present. Women will be permitted to choose how many fetuses they must retain Individual women demand selective termination of pregnancy places all moral responsibility for the procedure on the woman themselves.
Infertility is not merely physical condition. A prevailing ideology that women must reproduce, men must acquire offspring. Multiple pregnancy comes largely from treatment of infertility. The use of fertility drugs to prod women's bodies into ovulating & producing more than one ovum at a time results in an incidence of multiple gestation.
GIFT - Gamete intrafallopian transfer using several eggs & in vitro fertilization-IVF with subsequent implantation of several embryo in the woman's uterus to increase the likelihood that she will become pregnant may also result in multiple gestation "try anything” mentality is festered by IVF patients are not adequately informed about success rates.
Women's attitude towards selective termination is similar towards abortion Abortion is solution to the problem of unwanted pregnancy, the general availability of abortion. Women who abort are after all undergoing surgical invasion of their bodies. some may also experience emotional distress. For some woman the death of the fetus is a source of grief, when pregnancy is wanted & abortion is sought because of severe fetal disabilities.
Those who resort to this procedure surely don't desire the invasion of their uterus nor do they make it their aim to kill fetuses. Women who request abortion because their pregnancy is unwanted. or in selective termination woman are originally pregnant by choice & achieved at psychological & economic cost, after a lengthy struggle with infertility. For such woman procedure that risks the loss of all fetuses as selective termination may be troubling. The procedure is still experimental & outcomes are unknown. A attempt to reduce the no. of fetuses is experimental & result in miscarriage, infection bleeding etc. may damage remaining fetuses success is limited. Woman's good is to gestate one or more healthy infants.
Why not women who seek selective termination simply continue their pregnancy why choose to reduce no. of fetuses?
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