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Sabrinaaaa!


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One of the Siamese twins born six days ago in Britain died 12 hours after surgery to be seperated from her sister. This also left her sister Faith critically ill. The couple had been advised to have an abortion when a scan revealed they were expecting conjoined twins. The Williams were told that the babies were unlikely to survive and the pregnancy could be so dangerous Laura might never have any more children.

So if you were in this couples situation what would you do, knowing the likelyhood of the childrens survival and your own safety?

Ladies would you abort the twins or keep them?
Gentlemen would you encourage your girlfriend/wife to abort them?

And if you had them, would have be okay with having the surgery to disconnect them?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091547/Siamese-twin-Hope-dies-sister-left-critically-ill-separation-operation.html


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thats really sad but the doctors warned them and i don't know i think i would get an abortion but i wouldnt bring a child into this world knowing it would suffer and i wouldn't want to birth them and then have to go through the possibility of them dying right after birth

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i would definitely do my best to bring my children into the world- no matter the risk to my own safety. every child deserves the chance at life, even if that chance is minimal, even one of them may still survive and that's a precious life this world would have been without if the mother had aborted.

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I think if I had chosen to give birth to them, I wouldn't separate them if it was possible for both of them to live conjoined

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to be honest i would support whatever decision my wife made
i dont really think its the mans place to conflict in anyway whatsoever with a womans stance on abortion

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i don't know what i would have done. I think being pregnant changes your life completly because your world revolves around that person inside you. A motherly instincts will tell you what the right thing to do is and considering i have none of those at the moment, i couldn't honestly say what i would do.

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if i really wanted to have kids, and was ready for the responsibility and emotional stress of taking care of two children that might not survive or survive and be seriously disabled then of course, i wouldn't listen to the doctors and do my own thing.

but for me, kids are a no no all the time.
sorry:(

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Thats a really hard question to answer and I think i would support my wife in whatever she chose to do. But if it were up to me, I think I would rather have the twins. I also think that I would try to disconnect them too and attempt to spare them an extremely difficult life conjoined.

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well im not for abortion but this situation would take some serious thinking! if i did keep them i would want them to be separated after the birth, and i would hope that all would go well.

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i would keep the kids and take the risk.
i would definetly try and have them seperated with the surgery.


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What I meant, but didn't explain, is that I wouldn't seperate them if one was going to die because of it, if they could both live healty together


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i would definatly have the twins
and most definatly have the surgury for the best chances as a normal life..

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i wouldn't get an abortion and try to get the best medical attention i could

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I would definitely have the kids.. cuzz there was the posibility of them surviving. Its just realy sad one of them didn't make it. But i guess thats a risk you have to take.

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Honestly, I would abort them. I guess that's just in my culture

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if i were the boyfriend, i would encourage the abortion. Like i stated in the last heated abortion debate, i am fine if the children were endangering the mother or were at risk at not surviving after birth.

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cstair23 wrote:

to be honest i would support whatever decision my wife made
i dont really think its the mans place to conflict in anyway whatsoever with a womans stance on abortion


I agree with this. I would let my wife choose.

I would probably not want to have the kid sonce it might harm the wife /doesn't have a chance to survive/if it does survive it's severely disabled.



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I would want my wife to have the abortion but would support her if she wanted to take the risk.

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If I were the boyfriend due to my beliefs I am against abortions so I would tell my girlfriend to have the baby delivered and there is a little chance that the twins might have a chance to live. And hope and pray the best happens druing the surgery.

-- Edited by coolkidchaney at 07:47, 2008-12-05

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i would want to abort the kids.
and if they were born. i would try to seperate them but if it was life threatning then i wouldnt

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