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January 22, 2004

Not Necessarily Better Than One

Two heads, that is.

An international team of doctors hopes to operate in the Dominican Republic next month to remove an undeveloped second head from a baby girl born with one of the world's rarest birth defects, caused when a conjoined twin fails to develop in the womb.

The baby, Rebeca Martinez, was born in mid-December at a hospital in Santo Domingo with the head of an undeveloped twin attached to the top of her skull, facing upward.

Just remember folks, we're obviously the product of an Intelligent Designer. Hey, even deities screw it up every now and then (apparently).

Here's hoping the doctors are more capable than the Big Guy.

(and if you're interested in donating to the good people trying to give this little girl a normal life, you can do that here)