by MzNicky
The AP reports that yesterday a young girl in Pakistan had not one, but two, fetuses surgically removed from her body. The surgery was performed at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science in Islamabad on a patient known only as “Nazia.”
Authorities in the US are uncertain how such a case would be handled under new forced-childbirth legislation currently being proposed in many states. That the fetuses were actually “Nazia”’s siblings most likely would be of little consequence, given that there will be no legal exception for incest in such states as South Dakota or Tennessee, says the Rev. Orville T. Glorybag,* legal pregnancy analyst for the Forced Childbirth for Christian and American Values Coalition.*
Fortunately, the fetus-carrier, who is two months old,** resides in Pakistan, rather than the US of the future, and was thus able to have doctors deal with the situation, which is known as fetus-in-fetu— a medical abnormality that occurs about once every 500,000 births, wherein a fetus in the womb has another fetus (or in this case, two) growing inside it. As the hospital’s head of pediatric surgery explained: "Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other."
Although the infant's fetuses had died at four months, Glorybag remains firm in his belief that "Nazia" should nevertheless have carried her siblings to term, despite the obvious risks such non-termination of her condition would have posed to her health. “We're pushing for 'no exceptions' all across this great land," he said. "Look, that young girl should have thought of the consequences of her actions beforehand. Believe you me, such a blatant disregard for the pre-born will never happen in the US of A, if we have anything to do with it.”
*(not a real person or organization, as far as we know.)
**(this really is true.)
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