“Abortion was never an option,” father says By Dave Andrusko During her first trimester Heather Kroeger, already the mother of five ages 4 to 17, found out that she was pregnant with twins. Her husband, Jason Kroeger, told Fox 19, "There's that initial shock and a lot...
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Mother cannot bear to abort conjoined twins, baby girls born and then successfully separated
By Dave Andrusko Considering the conjoined twins were born in China, notorious for a viciously coercive population control program, which includes forced abortion and involuntary sterilization, their survival and subsequent successful separation is a multiple miracle....
Family celebrates successful separation of conjoined twin sisters
By Dave Andrusko Imagine being only two-years-old and undergoing surgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Stanford, California, so complicated it stretched out a whopping 17 hours. That’s what it took to separate conjoined twins Eva and Erika McDonald. On...
Conjoined twins, born after parents refused abortion, successfully separated
By Cassy Fiano Carter and Conner Mirabal were a rare set of conjoined twins — but not anymore. Their parents, Bryan Mirabal and Michelle Brantley, were shocked when they discovered last year that not only were they facing an unexpected pregnancy, but that they were...
Couple rejects abortion for conjoined daughters, two years later Allison and Amelia are thriving
By Dave Andrusko When Shellie Tucker was five-months pregnant, she and her husband, Greg, were told that their unborn daughters were conjoined. An obstetrician told the couple that the girls were unlikely to be separated successfully and advised an abortion....
Hope and Faith are Delivered by C-Section to Mom who rejected abortion
By Dave Andrusko Last week we wrote about one brave woman, Amanda Schulten, and her unborn twin daughters whom she has named Hope and Faith. Little did I know that Hope and Faith—connected at the torso, sharing a heart, a liver, and two lungs and kidneys—would be born...
Hope, Faith, and Amanda
By Dave Andrusko Oh, gosh, what follows is the kind of entry that both makes you stand in awe and makes you weep. Many of you may already know, but I didn’t until today, the story of Amanda Schulten and her unborn twin daughters which she has named Hope and Faith....