Fetal Reduction

Wrong twin aborted in Australian mix-up

Michael Cook | 25 November 2011

Australia has been rocked this week by a “selective reduction” gone wrong at a leading Melbourne hospital. A woman was pregnant with twins whom she had already named. At 32 weeks doctors detected significant heart abnormalities in one of the twins and advised her to abort the child. He would have had to have years of operations if he survived at all.

The gut-wrenching dilemmas of “foetal reduction”

Jared Yee | 20 August 2011

Foetal reduction is the dark side of the moon of fertility treatment. All too often women who become pregnant have twins or triplets. Since this involves medical and social risks, one or more of the foetuses are “reduced”, ie, aborted. It is a procedure which few outside the industry are aware of. Freelance journalist Ruth Padawer has just written a feature in the New York Times Magazine shedding light on its bioethical dilemmas.

Licence revoked of doctor who treated “OctoMom”

Michael Cook | 04 June 2011

The IVF doctor who treated OctoMom, the California woman who gave birth to live octuplets in January 2009, has been deregistered.

Foetal reduction essential for IVF, says specialist

Michael Cook | 21 November 2010

Disciplinary hearing of Michael Kamrava