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Article: Sound asleep, Siamese twins Faith and Hope; Sisterly embrace: Faith, left, and Hope, being cared for at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Top left, their parents Laura and Aled Williams.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Byline: Andrew Levy
THEIR arms are wrapped around each other as they sleep peacefully.
But this picture of serenity is one Faith and Hope's parents might never have seen.
For when Laura Williams was told she was pregnant with Siamese twins, she and her husband Aled, 28, were advised to abort them.
Although the survival rate for conjoined babies is very low, the couple, from Shrewsbury, refused on moral grounds.
On Wednesday their girls were delivered by Caesarean section, with a combined weight of 10lb 8oz.
Mrs Williams, 18, the youngest woman to give birth to conjoined twins, told The Mail on Sunday: 'They wheeled me ...