Doctors remove baby's second head

[amol]

HOLY CRAPPOLI!!

 

[Sundog]

WOW, just WOW!!!

 

[Bootprint]

Hopefully sugery goes better then this one last year.

 

[Filipino Manjuice]

whne i was babby docters removd my brian.

Looks like they got your brain and your common sense, too.

Good bye.

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[gabemcg]

this year's halloween costume... check

 

[DrPizza]

kinda sad in a way that the parents had to make that decision...

 

[Perknose]

My Dad always said that two heads were better than . . . oh, never mind. :roll:

 

[Landroval]

Instead of dwelling on her as a "freak", let's send our good thoughts/prayers to Manar and her family

 

[Rogue]

I'm curious to know if they used part of the skull from the "parasite" to reconstruct the "host" child's skull?

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: Aimster
Why are they always Egyptian?
Well the last 3-4 cases such as this have been..
am I wrong?

From the article:

As in the case of a girl who died after similar surgery in the Dominican Republic a year ago,

 

[Pacfanweb]

Damn, that's a tough choice to make, after seeing the other face. I suppose it did have a brain and would have been able to think and all, but its vital functions were performed by the kid with the rest of the body.
I generally side with the anti-abortion school of thought, but I don't see where they had much of a choice here. Hope the baby girl is okay.

 

[EyeMWing]

Oh, and am I the only person that wondered "Wait, they cut off THAT head!??!" based on the thread title?

 

[Juno]

Scary. :Q

 

[Kipper]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Having a working spinal column is not a prerequisite for being capable of intelligent thought. My question is theoretical: Given that anti-abortion "pro-life" people define a fertilized egg as a "human being", could not this head also be so defined? And, if so, did everyone involved in this operation conspire to commit murder?

I'll answer that question once you can give me a valid, uncontested, uncontroversial list of metaphysical categories that define "human."

 

[Rogue]

I really hate to do this and I truly do feel wrong about saying it, but I've got to say it.

Isn't that like the human equivalent to a dual core processor? <hangs head in shame, but smiles anyway>

 

[Mears]

Originally posted by: Rogue
I really hate to do this and I truly do feel wrong about saying it, but I've got to say it.

Isn't that like the human equivalent to a dual core processor? <hangs head in shame, but smiles anyway>

I laughed

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Having a working spinal column is not a prerequisite for being capable of intelligent thought. My question is theoretical: Given that anti-abortion "pro-life" people define a fertilized egg as a "human being", could not this head also be so defined? And, if so, did everyone involved in this operation conspire to commit murder?

I'll answer that question once you can give me a valid, uncontested, uncontroversial list of metaphysical categories that define "human."

Your post is worthless, since obviously if such lists existed the answers to those questions would be obvious and no one would need to explain them.