"Mike Aki and his husband, a Massachusetts couple...planned on having two children. But their two surrogate mothers in India each became pregnant with twins.
At 12 weeks into the pregnancies, Mr. Aki and his husband decided to abort two of the fetuses, one from each woman. It was a very painful call to make, Mr. Aki says. "You start thinking to yourself, 'Oh, my god, am I killing this child?'"
He didn't think of his decision as an abortion, but as a "reduction," he says. "You're reducing the pregnancies to make sure you have a greater chance of healthy children," Mr. Aki says. "If you're going to bring a child into this world, you have an obligation to take care of that child to the best of your abilities."
Today, Mr. Aki and his husband have two 21-month-old daughters. The girls share the same genetic mother. Each man is the genetic father of one of the girls. Next week, Mr. Aki and his husband will officially adopt each other's genetic daughter."
Assembling the Global Baby - WSJ.com
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007774155273928.html
"He didn't think of his decision as an abortion, but as a "reduction"...
Nazis could only aspire to such artfully-confected euphemisms.
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Wow! I'm not even sure what to say to that. It's shocking on so many levels. It makes me think of a science fiction that could possibly become a reality...a time when being a naturally born, genetically unaltered person would be a rare thing and perhaps only Christians would be them.
That story was doomed from these words "his husband".
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