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A most triumphant choice
Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:47
Scenario 1:  Bangladeshi mother advised she is pregnant with co-joined twins.  Medical advice is to abort.  Mother aborts.  Spends rest of life suffering post-abortion trauma and the physical damage done by abortion.

Scenario 2:  Bangladeshi mother advised she is pregnant with co-joined twins.  Medical advice is to abort.  Mother refuses and gives birth to two healthy girls joined at the head, Trishna and Krishna.  Mother has few means of support and relinquishes her girls to a care facility. 

An Australian woman, Moira Kelly, comes across the little girls a year or so later and works relentlessly to bring them to Australia to have an operation to separate them.  The girls are now 3 years old, separated and healthy.  Biological mother Lovely Mollik is now reunited with her twins who are under the guardianship of Ms Kelly.  Girls thrilled to see mum again and bonding closely.  Media attention is non-stop and everyone is happy.  And they lived happily ever after….

How fortunate that for these little girls, their lives belong in Scenario 2.  One wonders if their mother had been pregnant here in Australia, could she have withstood the pressure to abort?



From channels 10 and 9 news, broadcast on 23rd July 2010.