Does elective single embryo transfer (eSET) reduce pro-life hangups against IVF? On the Centers for Disease Control website about Elective Single Embryo Transfer or eSET, health experts count the risks of multiple births as including: > Some who become pregnant with multiples may find one or more cannot survive to term or even a premature birth. This may lead to a medical need to perform fetal reduction. Obviously, for a pro-lifer, this is a gut-wrenching possibility that would affect their choice of an assisted reproductive technology plan. Is Elective Single Embryo Transfer, in which the woman or couple chooses to implant only one embryo (instead of multiples) a good way to alleviate this moral hazard?

As the website says, the one embryo is:

> selected from a larger number of available embryos

So many lives are created, and only one is saved.