Doctors 'find dead foetus in boy'

[emad]

Doctors in Bangladesh say they have removed a long-dead foetus from the abdomen of a teenage boy who was complaining of stomach pains.
They said the foetus would have become the boy's twin had it grown normally in their mother's womb.

They said it was a case of an extremely rare condition where two foetuses are conceived as conjoined twins but one absorbs the other.

In 2003 Kazakhstan doctors removed a foetus from a seven-year-old boy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4624307.stm

[Zuni]

1. I have heard of this in "strange but true" books

I remember reading about a story where a guy started getting chest pains. When they did an x-ray, they found part of a skull in his abdomen---apparently, decades before in the womb he had a twin who never developed...weird

[ret5hd]

2. if this happened in the u.s. ...

would the repub's have him tried for fratricide? if guilty, would they ask for the death sentence?

[DBoon]

3. in the US, would this be an illegal late term abortion?

nt

[Wapsie B]

4. I've talked to neurosurgeons

who've operated on brain tumors with the tumor being the patient's undeveloped twin. Rare but it does happen.

[zbdent]

5. Religious Right will be attacking the physician

soon . . . didn't do enough to bring the fetus to term - despite the life of the child . . .

[XemaSab]

6. Wasn't that the plot

of one of the later Omen movies?

[RedCloud]

7. Sexist hypocrites allow males to abort!

Well, and what about large calcium deposits in males? These are sometimes referred to as stone fetuses.

Should we allow men to abort these stone fetuses? And if so, how will we maintain our population of statues?