So the miracle was thrust upon her?

Killeen: "Correct. Now, there's a process the doctors talk about, and was talked about a couple of times that I was on the Dr. Phil show three times, that's called selective reduction. And what the doctors do is they have you in an exam room and there's a ultrasound. And what they do is they use the ultrasound to see the fetus in your uterus.

"They can tell you the body weight of each one of them. And what they do in selective reduction is they, based on the medical expertise, they want you to look at the screen and decide which ones' the weakest fetus and which ones' the strongest. They want you to selectively reduce that fetus so that the stronger ones, the bigger ones, the more healthier ones, can survive in your uterus.

"So you inject saline solution into the heart of the fetus and you kill those babies. And that was not an option for her. That was not a choice. And she said `I cannot do that. I'm a Christian woman and I can't kill my own children. That's what selective reduction is about and nobody is willing to talk about it. If you look at the medical term, look at the IVF literature, do the research on selective reduction, it's a nice way of saying killing the weaker ones so the bigger ones, the healthier ones, can grow. And maybe you'll get two healthy ones, instead of five or six that might have medical issues."


(posted at:2/22/2009 5:37:39 AM)