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In the case of Re A (Children) the UK Court of Appeal decided that it was permissible to separate two conjoined twins (both of whom would die within a matter of months if they were not separated) because this would give one of them a good chance of survival (whilst involving the almost certain death of the other) despite the objection of the parents.
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BEYLEVELD, D. (2006). RATIONALITY IN BIOETHICS Reasonable Adjudication in a Life and Death Case of the Separation of Conjoined Twins1 . In: Rehmann-Sutter, C., Düwell, M., Mieth, D. (eds) Bioethics in Cultural Contexts. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4241-8_11
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