Separating Gracie and Rosie
David Wootton: Two people, one body, 22 July 2004
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
by Alice Domurat Dreger.
Harvard, 198 pp., £14.95, May 2004,0 674 01294 1 Show More
by Alice Domurat Dreger.
Harvard, 198 pp., £14.95, May 2004,
“... the four judges adopted a series of very different arguments to justify killing Rosie. Justice Johnson, who heard the initial application, thought of the children as having not one body but two: Gracie owned the heart and lungs, Rosie did not. ‘Gracie’s body’ was supplying Rosie’s with oxygen. At first he wanted to think of Gracie’s body as ... ”