A year or so ago in England, there was a woman named Mandy Alwood who was on IVF treatment. She became pregnant with octuplets. This was big news over here, but I don't know if it was heard about anywhere else.

Anyway, a dozen doctors all told her that if she aborted 2 or 3 of the foetuses, there was a slim chance the rest would survive. If she didn't, they would all die.

There was a publicity deal that would have netted her £1.5m (almost $2m) if she gave birth to all eight baby, but I'm sure that didn't influence her in the slightest.

Anyway, she decided not to abort any on the grounds that "that would be murder, and I couldn't do it". All eight foetuses died during the second trimester.

What are people's thoughts on this? Was she morally right or wrong to allow eight foetuses to die because she didn't want to abort two or three of them?

My personal opinion is that she was wrong, but I suspect I am in a minority there.

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