Saturday, September 10, 2011
Legal Talks: Re A (Children) Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation (2000)
Jodie and Mary are conjoined twins. They each have their own brain, heart and lungs and other vital organs and they each have arms and legs. They are joined at the lower abdomen. Whilst not underplaying the surgical complexities, they can be successfully separated. But the operation will kill the weaker twin, Mary. That is because her lungs and heart are too deficient to oxygenate and pump blood through her body. She is alive only because a common artery enables her sister, who is
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