YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN THIS Washington Post article (actually a book excerpt) on “selective reduction”–aborting one or more fetuses in a multiple pregnancy–but just in case, here it is. I’m not sure what to quote. There’s this

Greenbaum, who is Jewish, takes seriously her religion’s admonition not to take a life. What sustains her, she said, is the knowledge that the reductions she has been involved with were done for sound medical reasons. She would never, she said, work at an abortion clinic. “This is as close as I would get,” she said. “Here, it is completely different. You are helping people have healthy babies.”

Still, she says: “It’s a very hard procedure, because the baby is moving, and you are chasing it. That is what is very emotional — when the baby is moving and you are chasing it.

“Do you still feel emotional?” she asked Evans.

“I’ve come to look at it as: The finished product has a much better chance of surviving,” replied Evans, who had been following the conversation intently. “Look, you never want to dehumanize it, because then you get cavalier. You have to keep the big picture in mind. We’re not losing one. We’re saving some.”

but you should really read the whole thing.