February 7, 2004

FARE WELL REBECA:

Two-headed baby dies after surgery (AP, February 7, 2004)

An infant girl died Saturday after surgery to remove a second head, her mother said.

A medical team completed the operation Friday evening but said 8-week-old Rebeca Martinez had been susceptible to infection or hemorrhaging.

The baby died 12 hours after the surgery, believed to be the first of its kind.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 7, 2004 3:47 PM
Comments

Why did we even bother to save them when they could much easily have been killed in the womb?

Posted by: John Resnick at February 7, 2004 9:40 PM

Why did they bother to do the surgery, considering the extra head would only have developmentally impaired the other one?

Posted by: Jeff Guinn at February 8, 2004 5:48 PM

It was too heavy and was killing Rebeca.

Posted by: oj at February 8, 2004 6:16 PM

The press reports I read said nothing about that--they specifically said the additional heads continued presence would developmentally impair the girl.

I'm not saying that is correct, only that is what I read.

Posted by: Jeff Guinn at February 9, 2004 9:19 PM
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