Jodie and Mary (Conjoined Twins)

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Separating Conjoined Twins Jodie and Mary Separating Conjoined Twins Jodie and Mary: Discusses whether they should have been separated, and asks whether the separation was intentional killing, intentional mutilation, and whether it was obligatory. (Jodie and Mary) http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/faculty/ckaczor/articles/twins.html Separating Conjoined Twins Separating Conjoined Twins: Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz's analysis of whether it is permissible, under Jewish law, to sacrifice one twin to save the life of the other, using the Mary and Jodie case as an example. (Jodie and Mary) http://www.jlaw.com/Commentary/cojoinedtwins.html Jodie and Mary: Whose Choice Was It Anyway? Jodie and Mary: Whose Choice Was It Anyway?: Discusses the issues in family and criminal law raised by this case, and the limitations of applying the law to these cases in the first case. [spiked liberties] (Jodie and Mary) http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000000540E.htm Law Decided Fate of Mary and Jodie Law Decided Fate of Mary and Jodie: Overview of the facts of the case, and update on 'Jodie', the surviving twin. [The Guardian] (Jodie and Mary) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,645078,00.html The Case of the Siamese Twins The Case of the Siamese Twins: Full text of the judgment mandating separation, in the England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division). (Jodie and Mary) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2000/254.html Conjoined Twins - The Limits of Law at the Limits of Life Conjoined Twins - The Limits of Law at the Limits of Life: Analyzes the legal reasoning of the three judges of the appeals court who authorized separation, and concludes that the law does not offer sufficient justification for overriding the parents' wishes. [Reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine] (Jodie and Mary) http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/pvl/lim/conjoined-01-apr5.htm Surviving Siamese Twin Gracie Goes Home to Gozo Surviving Siamese Twin Gracie Goes Home to Gozo: The baby known as 'Jodie' (Gracie Attard) in court papers, now ten months old, is progressing well and ready to leave hospital. [Telegraph] (Jodie and Mary) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/06/16/ntwin16.xml Jodie and Mary: The medical facts Jodie and Mary: The medical facts: Overview of the case, diagram of the twins' bodies and shared circulatory system, and links to other coverage. [BBC News] (Jodie and Mary) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/920487.stm