As to the jury duty question my WAG is that they would just be exempt. There are exemptions for other reasonable things like school or what have you and besides there are plenty of other people out there to fill their potential slot on the jury.
I loved the show btw.
Yeah, this freaks me out.
Though I’ve just realized: This is like the “split brain” people writ large!
This in turn makes me think maybe there can be an argument made that they are just one person after all…
-FrL-
It seems like these questions would have to be answered on a case-by-case basis in light of exactly what the biology of the individual set of twins is?
Or, alternately, an argument could be made that a split-brained human organism is two people, after all.
As for things like them typing, or walking, in a coordinated manner, it’s likely that there’s some degree of neural connection between them. I wouldn’t expect anything like full-on telepathy, but there’s probably something internal which could loosely be described as “communication”. Of course, it’d be almost impossible to determine this, without an autopsy or a lot more similar cases.
May vary from state to state, but at least in Missouri you’re allowed to have someone with you when you vote. For example to read the ballot to you, or to mark the ballot IAW your instructions if you are diabled.
Well, for sure with these two girls neither one could possibly survive the death of the other.
It really depends on how connected the twins are, and how quickly they could be separated in the event of sudden death.
Yes, but in Brittany’s and Abigail’s case, don’t they have only one reproductive system? Therefore, they’d both be co-mothers, if only because it would be impossible otherwise.
You gotta admire them-they really cope well-I can’t imagine having to share a BODY with someone else. And they’re absolutely adorable, as well. (I saw a recent picture-both have that beautiful strawberry blond hair, big eyes, freckles. Cute kids.)
I don’t see why people are so hooked on the idea that because they share a reproductive system, they’d have to be “co-mothers.” A person’s reproductive equipment is frequently divorced from their status as parent of a particular child. You have surrogacy, adoption, gay parents, sperm/egg donation . . . If the girls can have separate driver’s licenses, I don’t see why they can’t be separate mothers. The other sister would be simply a surrogate of sorts for her sister’s child.
I think you have the wrong end of the stick here. While it is possible to be a mother without having given birth, everyone who *does *give birth is *necessarily *a mother.
That’s what I’m thinking. They’d both own all the eggs, right?
What if one of them wanted to abort? How would they handle that?
Not a surrogate. Legally, anyway, which is the point under discussion.
Well, presumably like they handle what shirt to wear, what movie to see and what classes to take - by talking it out and reaching a decision together.
Well, yes…but what if one of them really didn’t want it and one did? How would a court decide whose rights would prevail? Actually I could see this happening, particularly if one gets involved with a man that the other really doesn’t like (though I believe they are so in tune with each other that it would be highly unlikely).
Suppose A and B are conjoined. B has just had sex with his lover and is now asleep. A never did like the girl and reaches into the nightstand, and without waking B, A shoots the girl dead. Now A has committed murder without the knowledge or consent of B. But to imprison A would be false imprisonment for B. What would society do?
Ooh! These are fun. What if A had sex with C, while B was asleep? Could she press charges of rape, because she didn’t consent? Who would the rapist be, A or C or both? What if A and C got B drunk first? (Can B get drunk if A isn’t, considering they share a bloodstream?)
Really, the answer is just that it will have to be worked out if and when it ever happens. Anything beforehand is just so much mental masturbation. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)
I know! I’m very curious about any legal opinions on it, even though I know it can’t be solved here.
Deleted. Answered wrong question.
The full phrase is “surrogate mother.” She is still the mother. Legally, she is not the parent.
I thought we were talking about legal status in this thread. People are making this “co-mother” argument, that both girls would be on the birth certificate as mothers of the child. Show me where any surrogate has been listed on the birth certificate of a child as a “co-parent.”