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LONDON, March 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dozens of women carrying more than one baby after fertility treatments have had a number of their unborn children “killed by lethal injection” within the womb, says a report from the BBC. According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics, 49 unborn children were destroyed by lethal injection in 2001, the majority of them normal and healthy.  In two cases, sets of quadruplets in the womb were culled down to one baby—and in five cases of triplets, the mother had two of the unborn culled. Part of the reason is the official recommendation of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which recommends a maximum of two fertilised embryos be implanted in a woman’s womb at a time. The culling process is not considered an abortion because the dead baby is not forcibly extracted from the womb.  For the BBC report:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2835613.stm