{"id":188317,"date":"2018-09-19T07:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=188317"},"modified":"2018-09-18T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:11:59","slug":"selective-reduction-video-shocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/selective-reduction-video-shocking\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Selective reduction just as horrific today as it was six years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Live Action News has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-quadruplets-refused-abortion-miracles\/\">shared<\/a> many <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-quintuplets-bravely-refused-selective-reduction\/\">stories<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quintuplets-saved-from-selective-abortion-now-saving-lives-of-others\/\">multiples<\/a> pregnancies in which parents were <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-triplets-refused-selective-reduction-son-die-he-was-in-me-and-he-was-safe\/\">pressured<\/a> to have selective reduction &#8212; in other words, kill &#8212; one or more of their children. The usual reason for this is that multiples pregnancies are considered &#8220;high risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, &#8220;out of sight,&#8221; as they say, is often &#8220;out of mind.&#8221; Until the public sees <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionprocedures.com\">abortion<\/a>, the public will continue to approve of &#8212; or at the very least, tolerate &#8212; abortion. Selective reduction is no different. And six years ago in Australia, the public had a chance to see selective reduction in action on an ultrasound screen, thanks to a 60 Minutes program that aired in May of 2012. This is still relevant, even six years later, as selective reduction happens frequently&#8230; much more often than we&#8217;d like to think.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sextuplets-refusing-selective-abortion\/\">READ: <em>Family welcomes sextuplets after refusing selective reduction abortion<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people who saw the original televised program on selective reduction were horrified, as a needle is shown entering the womb and then going into the heart of a preborn baby. One woman admits that she didn&#8217;t want to have three babies at once because it would have disrupted her New York lifestyle, saying that perhaps her decision to selectively reduce was &#8220;a little&#8221; selfish. Another woman in the video cavalierly says she has &#8220;no regrets&#8221; about choosing selective reduction, because she believes she merely continued her &#8220;pregnancy&#8221; as a singleton pregnancy instead of as a &#8220;litter,&#8221; and merely got rid of two &#8220;potential&#8221; lives &#8212; or &#8220;tissue,&#8221; as she called her deceased children.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor seen in the video expressed the same belief about &#8220;potential&#8221; life in the womb &#8212; even though he is well aware it is his needle that stops the beating hearts of very real human beings &#8220;every week,&#8221; as he says.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman in the video, who chose to give birth to all of\u00a0her triplets (all of whom are healthy today) has a gut-wrenching reaction when the host describes how selective reduction is done. (<strong>Warning<\/strong>: Video may be disturbing to some.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T7JXMIZ8fPA\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The denial among those who find this practice acceptable seems very strong in the video, with the doctor even insisting that selective reduction isn&#8217;t like abortion because an abortion <em>ends<\/em> a pregnancy &#8212; while selective reduction, he shockingly claims, &#8220;saves&#8221; a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>This is not in any way valuing human beings&#8217; lives. It is treating them as a commodity&#8230; a product to be &#8220;returned&#8221; if things don&#8217;t go according to plan. Words really can&#8217;t adequately describe how disturbing it is to witness the justification for killing defenseless human beings in the womb taking place within the fertility industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Action News has shared many stories of multiples pregnancies in which parents were pressured to have selective reduction &#8212; in other words, kill &#8212; one or more of their children. The usual reason for this is that multiples pregnancies are considered &#8220;high risk.&#8221; However, &#8220;out of sight,&#8221; as they say, is often &#8220;out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":156999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WATCH: Selective reduction just as horrific today as it was six years ago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many people who saw the original program on selective reduction were horrified, as a needle is shown going into the heart of a preborn baby.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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