[radian]

An Australian woman has miraculously given birth to conjoined twins with one body and two heads despite doctors initially telling them to terminate the pregnancy.

Renee Young and her partner Simon Howie, of Tregear in Sydney's west, welcomed their daughters on Thursday six weeks before they were due.

The couple, who found out via an ultrasound that the twins they were expecting was in fact one child with two symmetrical faces and two brains connected by the one brain stem, said doctors were shocked by the girls' exceptional progress.

Abortion debate!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...wo-brains.html

[vagabond]

I'm not going there...

[corpsehands]

Not that I have a say cause it's the mothers choice, but I would have voted for an abortion. That being said I hope for the best, and that hope and faith are not suffering.

[GlassToTheArson]

[Jere]

[wad]

What about one heart to supply two brains ? Also, brains seems smaller than normal, how will they grow ?

[ByDemonsBeDriven]

Fucking idiots. The article says they're on welfare and the mother 'can't' work because she has arthritis.

They should have named it 'meal ticket' because the publicity is going to lead to a shit load of donations so they can support their other 7 kids. I'm sure that's the reason they refused to abort it.

[profezzorx]

Fucking superficial doctors. They want the parents to abort the baby because they're afraid for the parents and the social acceptance of the baby... Really? They're not the ones that have to raise it, or go through the mental anguish if and when the child dies. I'm sorry but freak or not, I'm with the parents on this one. No one should be telling them to abort their baby unless the mother or child was in grave, and life threatening danger.

[Shakey]

No links

[jinks]

2 brains one heart how many souls..? as if..