Doctors in China successfully separated conjoined twins this week, giving their mother reassurance and hope after she refused to abort them.
On Monday, doctors spent several hours operating on the 3-month-old twin girls who were conjoined at the stomach, the Daily Mail reports. The twins are believed to be doing well after the surgery.
ECNS news in China reports about half of all conjoined twins die before they are born, and still more die shortly after birth. Because the odds of the twin girls’ survival were slim, doctors near the family’s home in the Jiangsu Province suggested that their mother, Liu, abort them.
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