Word: twinning
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Renfrew, along with her twin sister Susan and her younger sister Judith had begun climbing the 4406-foot mountain early Tuesday on a tourist path, but Renfrew and her sisters became separated...
Doctors successfully abort an abnormal twin...
...face the burden of caring for an abnormal child for the rest of her life." She would have chosen to abort both fetuses rather than continue the pregnancy to term had doctors not told her there was yet a third option: to try to abort only the abnormal twin...
...Thomas Kerenyi at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center. The attempt was made in the 20th week of pregnancy, when the fetus weighs about 10 oz. and is about 10 in. long. A series of pictures taken during the earlier ultrasound scanning helped locate the abnormal twin, though not with certainty; Kerenyi put his chances at "much better than 50-50." Doctors then used sound waves to pinpoint the tiny beating heart. On their second attempt, they pierced the heart with a thin needle and withdrew about half the fetus' blood, causing the heart gradually to stop beating...
...pregnancy continued uneventfully. "The mother looked forward to the birth as a delightful event, and the other aspect didn't bother her," Kerenyi said. Fortnightly ultrasound scans showed the aborted fetus withering away while the live twin grew. Twenty weeks after the abortion, the woman went into labor. She delivered the dead fetus, by this time a paper-thin collection of cells, and a healthy...