Ignoring Counsel to Abort, UK Couple is Determined to Give their Twins Life

Aimee Herd : Jan 17, 2009
Aaron J. Leichman – Christian Post

"To me, my twins were a gift from God and we're determined to give them a chance of life."

(United Kingdom)?Vowing to give their conjoined twins a "chance of life," a UK couple is refusing to abort them, although the chance of survival is about 20 percent according to doctors. (File photo)

Twenty-five-year-old Lisa Chamberlain, whose twins share a body but have separate heads, told the Telegraph UK that though some might say she will give birth to "a freak; I don't care because I feel blessed."

After seven years of trying to conceive, the Catholic couple views their twins as a "gift from God," which they refuse to "throw away."

According to the Christian Post report, the couple is drawing encouragement from the Hensel twins in America; eighteen-year-olds who, despite sharing a rib cage, limbs and some organs, lead a relatively normal life.