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Should conjoined twins be separated at birth?

In 2010 John, presenting Dreger's case against early separation, leaned toward accepting unusual anatomies, while calling the question hard.

Axis: separate early to give normal lives ... do not separate without need; not normal is not bad

Positions by date: 2 records in 2 videos. The position did not change in these records.

John

date how position video
2010-04-12 first on record Presenting Dreger's case against early separation, John leans toward accepting unusual anatomies (not normal is not bad or scary) while saying the question is not easy or simple. On the Separation of Conjoined Twins 00:02:58
2011-01-12 restate John says we are so obsessed with making unusual anatomies normal that we forget they can have many advantages; conjoinedness is not entirely desirable, but like most realities it resists simplicity. Top Six Conjoined Twin Pairs in History 00:03:31