Showing posts with label siamese twins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label siamese twins. Show all posts

13 January 2009

Two twins or no twins.

Oh the controversy! A British woman called Lisa has just been told that she is pregnant with twins...conjoined twins, that is. The babies share one body and have two heads. The babies are known as dicephalus twins, the rarest known type of Siamese twins. Doctors believe the babies have a 20% survival rate (no twins of this kind have suffered after birth in Britain).

Lisa and her husband Mike (both Catholic) have decided to continue with the pregnancy:

"Some people might look at me and say: 'You're going to give birth to a freak' – but I don't care because I feel blessed," she said.

"To me my twins were a gift from God and we're determined to give them a chance of life."

Of course, people are sensationalising this story, making the poor couple look like nutjobs (140 articles written about the story at the time of writing this post).

Any thoughts?

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4220334/Conjoined-twins-Woman-pregnant-with-twins-with-two-heads-and-single-body.html


 
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