CASE STUDY: 

 
In August 2000, a young woman from Gozo, an island south of Italy, discovered that she
was carrying conjoined twins. Knowing that health-care facilities on Gozo were
inadequate to deal with the complications of such a birth, she and her husband went to
St. Mary’s Hospital in Manchester, England, to have the babies delivered. The infants,
known as Mary and Jodie, were joined at the lower abdomen. Their spines were fused,
and they had one heart and one pair of lungs between them. Jodie, the stronger one,
was providing blood for her sister.
No one knows how many sets of conjoined twins are born each year, but the number
has been estimated at 200. Most die shortly after birth, but some conjoined twins do
well. They grow to adulthood and marry and have children themselves. But the outlook
for Mary and Jodie was grim. The doctors said that without intervention the girls would
die within six months. The only hope was an operation to separate them. This would
save Jodie, but Mary would die immediately.
The parents, who were devout Catholics, refused permission for the operation on the
grounds that it would hasten Mary’s death. “We believe that nature should take its
course,” they said. “ if it is God’s will that both our children should not survive, then so be
it.” The hospital, hoping to save at least of the infant, petitioned the courts for
permission to separate them over the parent’s objections.  The court granted permission,
and the operation was performed.  As expected, Jodie lived  and Mary died.
Questions:

1. Using either Law or Religion as basis, who should make the decision from the
question of what the decision should be?

It is the Law, first of all, in the situation Jodie and mary are conjoined twins, each of them
had its own brain, heart and lungs but Mary is depended on her sister Jodie’s heart and
lungs to sustain her life. In their situation that duty would harm Jodie’s heart that, if
unseparated, it was said that both of this infants would die within the span of 6 months.
The only hope of this twins is to separate them.

According to Judge jonson

According to Paris (2001), The St Mary's physicians were convinced they could
successfully separate the twins and provide Jodie with a worthwhile life.

It is the Law for me, because in Law they have a decision or explain law… that protect
every citizen in the country to make them feel safe.
The doctor ang dapat mag decide dahil sila ay may mas malalim na kaalaman, at
magkaroon ng solution para maligtas sila jody at mary basta maligtas sila..

The doctors should decide for the condition of the twins because hey know and have
expertise on the job and have rational in making decision. They are more capable in
making dicisions while the parents cannot because in the situation the parents is
emotional while making a decisions. They cannot think properly beause of their mix
emotions which can cause the death of a twin… On the other hand the parents should
decide because its their children, and they know what the best for their child but if you
see the situation it is best that the doctos should be the ones who make a decision..

First of all the parents should decide on the sake of their children. The parents is both
catholic and

2. Would it be right or wrong, in these circumstances, to separate the twins based

on the theories and principles you've used?

As stated above I chose the law and according to the law… explain na or mag cite
ka ng instances na pede mag separatee ng twins…

In this situation,, it is right to separate the twins even one of them would die rather than
not separate them,, and the twins both die.

Paris JJ, Elias-Jones AC
“Do we murder Mary to save Jodie?” An ethical analysis of the separation of the
Manchester conjoined twins
Postgraduate Medical Journal 2001;77:593-59

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