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Sacrificing a child to save another

Re A (2000)

Bee Kavanagh examines a controversial case where the courts had to decide whether to let one conjoined twin die so that the other might live

This column is relevant to AQA A2 Unit 4.

The dilemma for the Court of Appeal in the case of Re A (2000) was whether to give consent for doctors to carry out an operation to separate conjoined twins, which would cause the death of one of the twins while saving the life of the other.

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