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To: Neocon who wrote (42575)	6/28/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>Selective abortion of multi-fetal pregnancies is a good example. Doctors faced with quadruplets (4) will at times selectively kill two in the womb on the supposition that survival of two has better odds than four. But, if the sex can be determined, which ones are killed? "Ninety-nine percent of the requests are to keep the boys." M. Evans, Progress in Fetal Studies . . . Thorny Ethical Issues, OB, Gyn News, Oct. 1, 1990, p. 3< Is this the thing you mean? My only comment is that quadruple pregnancies are quite rare, about one in 40 000 if I recall my numbers. So with four million pregnancies per annum, we arrive at a hundred sets of quads per annum. How many of these are "weeded"? That is what I'm not getting from this.