selective reduction in a sentence

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1. Women who reduce have a 15 percent chance of losing their entire pregnancy, compared with only 3 percent who do not undergo selective reduction.
2. If more women elsewhere in the country could get good care while carrying quads, more of them wouldn't have to consider selective reduction, he said.
3. The conventional wisdom among doctors around the country is that selective reduction is the way to go if a woman is carrying quads or more.
4. The clinic typically implants a woman with up to seven eggs; if they all appear to survive implantation, some are aborted in a process known as " selective reduction,"
5. Though selective reduction seems to be effective, mothers of multiples who undergo this procedure are at a higher risk of miscarrying compared to that of an unreduced multiple pregnancy.
6. Dr . John Mattox of Samaritan Institute of Reproductive Medicine makes his patients sign a form saying that they have been counseled about selective reduction before they start therapy.
7. Because of her size, her doctor told her, there would be " zero chance " that the six babies she was carrying would live unless she underwent selective reduction.
8. A study done by looking at 158 pregnant women who underwent selective reduction from higher order multiples to twins showed that the mother had a 10.6 % chance of miscarriage.
9. Women who develop multiple pregnancies can opt for " selective reduction " _ terminating one or more fetuses _ to improve the odds that some will survive and be healthy.
10. And technology has brought a new term to the lexicon : " selective reduction, " a procedure to abort some, but not all, fetuses in multiple pregnancies caused by infertility treatments.