Talk:Selective reduction

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Someone added an unsourced claim that selective reduction has been opposed (by whom? when? in what contexts?) as "a form of eugenics". This is a pretty specific claim (about an extremist position) and requires citation to reliable independent verifiable sources. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 06:39, 1 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

According to Yaron et al., "Selective termination is employed in multifetal pregnancies, in the presence of an abnormal fetus, in order to improve the prognosis of the normal fetuses. The term elective reduction is used to describe reduction in twin pregnancies for maternal medical conditions, psychological, or socio-economic reasons." Is this article confounding two different concepts? --PeeKoo (talk) 17:27, 8 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Most of the articles I read refer to "selective reduction" as being the aborting of some fetuses in a multiple pregnancy because multiple births are risky or because the mother or couple do not want a multiple pregnancy. Those articles have been in the press, not in the medical literature, and since this is an encyclopedia, not a medical textbook, using the common term is most appropriate.--Bruce Hall (talk) 00:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

None of the articles that I have read, all non-medical, have mentioned using selective reduction for fetal deformaties. The comment above makes me think that the reference to fetal deformaties does not belong in this article but in another article about another procedure or practice.--Bruce Hall (talk) 00:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)Reply