dr. patel concedes that implanting five embryos heightens the risk for infants and mother, and says she is now lowering the number to three or four. but she says the downside of fewer embryos is a lower pregnancy success rate. when multiple embryos develop into viable pregnancies, dr. patel's policy is to reduce them by selective abortion. aside from possible religious concerns, the process could present medical risk to the surviving fetuses. >> parents -- yes, there are some who say right from the beginning, "doctor, put less embryos because we are not for reduction, and we don't this to happen." so in those cases we never transfer more than two. but there are certain parents who don't have any objection to this, and surrogates -- we don't allow them to carry more than two. >> dr. patel insists that her facility protects the interests of surrogates as much as the clients of her commercial surrogacy program and the infants she delivers. >> we do a lot of psychological counseling for the surroga