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Fertility treatments raise your odds of getting pregnant with more than one baby. When you carry twins, triplets, or more, pregnancy becomes more of a challenge. Its also less likely that all your babies will be born healthy.
A surgery called multifetal reduction lowers the number of fetuses and improves your chances for a healthy pregnancy
From Webmd.com.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)The whole IVF business as usual is under threat in half the states now.
intrepidity
(7,272 posts)Most people have no idea about how this slippery slope will cause untold damage.
Diamond_Dog
(31,887 posts)David__77
(23,311 posts)Its a way to grow a coalition against criminalization.
Ilsa
(61,688 posts)Those teeny tiny babies get cold and lonely in the freezer. I'm guessing reduction surgery will be illegal. "Carry all eight of them and let God sort it out" will be their rationale.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)if you do nothing and they all die it is God's will. Not that they really know what God's will is mind you. That is how they justify themselves for all this...by pretending they are God.
jmowreader
(50,527 posts)This procedure is no joke. You're not going to do it if you can conceive any other way.
So, if God told you that you shouldn't be having babies by making you infertile, and you tell God to GFH by spending tens of thousands of dollars to artificially get pregnant, don't you think God would be pissed at your decision?
LeftInTX
(25,092 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)These assholes think they are God, because they read the parts of the Bible that suit them...if that.
DenaliDemocrat
(1,474 posts)Felonies even. Mississippi is proposing a similar law.