Conjoined Twins Want To Get Hitched

[ReinnieR]

[url="http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/01/13/conjoined-twins-want-to-get-hitched/"]http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/01/13/conjoi...to-get-hitched/[/url]

[CatherineM]

The original ones were married, had separate houses and everything. It would be weird though.

[ReinnieR]

original ones??

[Saint Therese]

Does the phrase "I got your back" apply here?

[ReinnieR]

so how does this work?? can a person really marry 2 people??? would this be polygamy???

[Jesus_lol]

can you imagine being the guy in that relationship? you have to have both love you or it just wouldn't work. that could be difficult, especially if their personalities are that different.
and there is pretty much no chance that the guy wouldnt be completely whipped!


hope they find what they are looking for though!

[Christie_M]

[quote name='ReinnieR' post='1755006' date='Jan 18 2009, 11:20 PM'][url="http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/01/13/conjoined-twins-want-to-get-hitched/"]http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/01/13/conjoi...to-get-hitched/[/url][/quote]


I remember watching their documentaries.

[Roamin'Catholic]

[quote name='ReinnieR' post='1755017' date='Jan 19 2009, 02:28 AM']original ones??[/quote]
I think she is refering to the "first" Siamese twins to become famous.

Eng and Chang Bunker were from Siam, which is where the term "Siamese twins" comes from. The Bunker Twins fathered 21 children between them and were successful businessman and ranchers in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Attached by a five-inch connecting ligament near their breastbones, Eng and Chang married sisters Sallie and Adelaide Yates, respectively, and lived fairly private lives when they weren't touring the world to earn incomes. After their deaths it was determined they could have been successfully separated, a medical option that was never offered to Eng and Chang during their lives.

[Aloysius]

i believe that in the Church, they would have to marry two different guys as they are two distinct persons? though that presents problems in the sense that they share one body and, presumably, one reproductive organ (though I don't know)... I don't know if the sacrament is one person to one person or one reproductive organ to one reproductive organ... strange times we live in, and this time I say that not in a bad way, wondrous times we live in that their lives were saved by medical science to come to this point in their lives (how'd you like to be the priest given THAT pastoral situation... you'd probably get to meet the pope cause there'd have to be a discussion haha)

anyway, the state would probably just bend over backwards to give them either situation they wanted, either marrying one guy or marrying two.. sadly, the Church might not even be able to allow for marriage in such a situation.

[MithLuin]

They are very much conjoined, so essentially they have one body with two heads. They each have their own heart and stomach, though. The reproductive organs are shared; the spines are separate. (And yes, this means that they have a total of 2 breasts and 1 uterus, if anyone cared....)

They've learned to coordinate their shared body, so I don't think you can view them as 2 distinct bodies (even though they are two distinct persons). Life magazine labeled them as 2 souls with one body.

They attended a Lutheran elementary school (Missouri Synod), and that is the only reference I found to their family's religion. So, I doubt they will attempt to be married in the Catholic Church anyway.

[quote]The Hungarian Sisters,
Helena and Judith, were a celebrated pair of
pygopagus conjoined twins in the 18th Century; they
travelled extensively through Europe, and were
examined by many eminent naturalists. In later life,
the Hungarian Sisters entered a convent, where they
died in 1723 aged 22 years. The pygopagus twins Rosa
and Josepha Blazek were even more famous. They
were called 'Le pygopage du Theatre de l'age Gaite',
and were a well-known attraction at the Paris stage
of the 1890s; they amused the audience by singing
and playing violin duets. Later, the two inseparable
sisters married the same man and moved to the
United States; they died there in 1922 aged 43
years. [url="http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1294728&blobtype=pdf"]The Biddenden Maids[/url][/quote]

[ReinnieR]

[quote name='Aloysius' post='1755169' date='Jan 19 2009, 11:18 AM']i believe that in the Church, they would have to marry two different guys as they are two distinct persons? though that presents problems in the sense that they share one body and, presumably, one reproductive organ (though I don't know)... I don't know if the sacrament is one person to one person or one reproductive organ to one reproductive organ... strange times we live in, and this time I say that not in a bad way, wondrous times we live in that their lives were saved by medical science to come to this point in their lives (how'd you like to be the priest given THAT pastoral situation... you'd probably get to meet the pope cause there'd have to be a discussion haha)

anyway, the state would probably just bend over backwards to give them either situation they wanted, either marrying one guy or marrying two.. sadly, the Church might not even be able to allow for marriage in such a situation.[/quote]
this is what i'm saying.

they are 2 different people sharing a body. if they were each to marry 2 different guys and they conceive...as far as we know it's both their eggs since they share 1 reproductive system. so then the baby would have 2 moms and 1 dad?

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='ReinnieR' post='1755400' date='Jan 19 2009, 02:42 PM']this is what i'm saying.

they are 2 different people sharing a body. if they were each to marry 2 different guys and they conceive...as far as we know it's both their eggs since they share 1 reproductive system. so then the baby would have 2 moms and 1 dad?[/quote]

This is exactly what I'm wondering. Furthermore, if each girl has a husband, then technically the husband of Girl A is [b]also[/b] having intercourse with Girl B (same applies to Girl B's husband, he is sleeping with [b]both[/b] his wife and his wife's sister). Also, the sisters can only have one child at a time (as they have one uterus)...so say Husband A impregnates them, then Husband B (the husband of Girl B) has to watch his wife give birth to another man's child.

[ReinnieR]

[quote name='HisChildForever' post='1755423' date='Jan 19 2009, 03:53 PM']This is exactly what I'm wondering. Furthermore, if each girl has a husband, then technically the husband of Girl A is [b]also[/b] having intercourse with Girl B (same applies to Girl B's husband, he is sleeping with [b]both[/b] his wife and his wife's sister). Also, the sisters can only have one child at a time (as they have one uterus)...so say Husband A impregnates them, then Husband B (the husband of Girl B) has to watch his wife give birth to another man's child.[/quote]
or

for some reason they get 1 guy. they share a reproductive system and also share a husband. i mean what can... what can... i don't know

[CatherineM]

I would have to give convent life a serious look in similar circumstances. The funny thing is, most orders wouldn't look at someone with this large a "disability" anymore.

[Ziggamafu]

Hmm...seems I recall reading in one of my moral theology texts that conjoined twins cannot validly marry...hmm...can't remember...I'll have to look into it, when I get a moment.