The protection of maternal well being versus harm of newly formed fetal life is an extension of the aforementioned ethical question. It can be viewed that all life is important and that no life should be terminated without consent from the life that is being terminated. A polar opposite viewpoint advocates for the right of choice, that being the choice to terminate a pregnancy due to desire or pregnancy risks. Overall, most multifetal pregnancy reductions that occur as a result of ART are being done for the protection of the child-bearers health and to maximize the health of the remaining fetuses. See also
Biological reproduction
Conjoined twins
Feodor Vassilyev
"Grávida de Taubaté" (pt), a Brazilian woman who pretended to be pregnant with quadruplets in 2012 and gained national media attention before her pregnancy was revealed to be a hoax
Half a Dozen Babies, a 1999 drama film about the 1993-born Dilley sextuplets
List of multiple births
List of twins
Only child
Quints, a Disney Channel movie about a teenage girl becoming the older sister to quintuplets
Superfecundation (multiple pregnancy resulting from separate acts of sexual intercourse)
Three Identical Strangers
Twin

References
External links

Facts About Multiples
HFEA consultation on multiple births after IVF
D. L. Ashliman, Multiple Births in Legend and Folklore
Twins and Multiple Births Association
This is because both CHARGE syndrome and 3C syndrome share symptoms of ocular colobomas, cardiac defects, growth retardation, and minor facial abnormalities.Coffin–Siris syndrome presents with fifth-finger deformities and congenital heart defects. It is distinguished from 3C syndrome by differences in facial dysmorphisms. Management
The outcome of this disease is dependent on the severity of the cardiac defects. Approximately 1 in 3 children with this diagnosis require shunting for the hydrocephaly that is often a consequence. Some children require extra assistance or therapy for delayed psychomotor and speech development, including hypotonia. Prognosis
Prognoses for 3C syndrome vary widely based on the specific constellation of symptoms seen in an individual. Typically, the gravity of the prognosis correlates with the severity of the cardiac abnormalities. For children with less severe cardiac abnormalities, the developmental prognosis depends on the cerebellar abnormalities that are present. Severe cerebellar hypoplasia is associated with growth and speech delays, as well as hypotonia and general growth deficiencies. Epidemiology
3C syndrome is very rare, occurring in less than 1 birth per million. Because of consanguinity due to a founder effect, it is much more common in a remote First Nations village in Manitoba, where 1 in 9 people carries the recessive gene. History
The syndrome was first reported in 1987 in two sisters who had similar craniofacial abnormalities, Dandy–Walker phenotype, and congenital heart abnormalities. Neither of the parents was affected, indicating that the disorder was transmitted in an autosomal recessive pattern.