Brittani and Ian McIntire didn't plan on having any more children, but their six-week sonogram revealed that the Kansas couple was expecting twins: Mason and Madilyn.

But each successive appointment just delivered more and more bad news: Mason has a hole in his heart and an abnormal brain, and his growth development is already proceeding much slower than it should.

"He's only weighing nine ounces and his sister is over two pounds," Brittani told FOX8. "His only chance of survival would be heart surgery but they wouldn't do heart surgery because of his brain."

Tuesday, there was a brief glimmer of hope, though: "We didn't really see much, she said there's his hand and there's her hand and it looks like they're holding hands," Brittani said. Sure enough, the couple's most recent sonogram appears to show Mason's much smaller hand wrapped around his sister's finger.

"We know we have a piece of them together that will last forever... and it's special to have," Ian told FOX8.

"It's just nice with everything going on... I know I'm holding him, I'm carrying him but I just want to be there for him," Brittani added. "She's the only one who can actually be there and is holding onto him... so it's comforting to know that if he does pass, he won't be alone."


Sending up prayers ! ! ! 

Video here http://www.people.com/article/dying-twin-holds-siblings-hand-womb 

I am crying watching the video. ;;;( 

Why are you crying? According to your party, these aren't lives, these are just blobs of cells.

If you really want to cry, watch a fetus scream during an abortion procedure:

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Just shut up. I don't know anyone who is for late term abortion who is a democrat so just shut up. 

Just shut up. I don't know anyone who is for late term abortion who is a democrat so just shut up.



Late-term, early-term, is there a difference? 

To everyone who believes in science, yea. 

All your so called science doesnt change the fact thats its a human being and thats it it can ever be, until killed, then its a dead human being. 

To everyone who believes in science, yea.


Science believes in cause-effect principle.

So if an early fetus is aborted, will it grow to a late-term fetus. No. 

Stunning Sonogram Shows Unborn Child Holding Dying Twin's Hand


That's just hopeful thinking brought on by grief. 

So if an early fetus is aborted, will it grow to a late-term fetus. No.


When you anti abortion wing nuts are ready to adopt all the unwanted children in this world then we can talk again. Until then, put up or shut up. 

When you anti abortion wing nuts are ready to adopt all the unwanted children in this world then we can talk again. Until then, put up or shut up.?

So the solution is mass genocide of children? 

They're blobs of cells, not children.

Children grow, and turn into adults. Your adult kids had to be bailed out by daddy. Hardly any of these cell blobs will have that entitled luxury when they also turn into adults. 

They're blobs of cells, not children.

Just as you were, and in complete possession of a human future. Just as you were. Sad that we as human beings continue to arbitrarily decide what is or is not human, and what human is or is not deserving of their future.

We have a very very long history showing the awful consequences of those arbitrary distinctions.

Some day, I believe, humans will look back on these years of legal killing and be amazed we could justify those actions. 

I hope you don't have to experience what has to happen when overpopulation becomes a serious issue AMDG. Your morals are going to be in serious question then.

Maybe we'll look back and wish abortions were encouraged more. 

I hope you don't have to experience what has to happen when overpopulation becomes a serious issue AMDG. Your morals are going to be in serious question then

Your right - lets just kill them. That is the only possible answer. 

What will be the answer to overpopulation?

We have finite resources, and physical space.

How would you solve that? If we can no longer sustain food, what do we do Cannibalism? 

http://www.howmany.org/environmental_and_social_ills.php 

That's just hopeful thinking brought on by grief.


That may be true but if it gives them comfort who cares? They are still holding hands and you can't deny that!! 

220,000 people are born daily. We add a billion people to the planet every 12 years.

You must know that isn't sustainable. 

What will be the answer to overpopulation?

We have finite resources, and physical space.

How would you solve that? If we can no longer sustain food, what do we do Cannibalism?

Use you imagination Fuzz, do you really think abortion is the only answer, to this possible problem??

It's all just more and more justification for the heart of the vast majority of abortions. And that is 2 people had sex, in the vast majority of the cases irresponsibly, and the very natural outcome of that sex is inconvenient. And instead of assuming responsibility for those actions, it is easier to kill it, feel bad about it for some time, get over it, and go on with your life like nothing happened.

Abortion isn't about controlling poverty, or preventing over population, or for any greater good. It is in the vast majority of cases - just the ending of an inconvenient life. 

You must know that isn't sustainable.

I know no such thing, and neither do you.

Analysis lesson - the single biggest analytic flaw is drawing a strait line through your data, and assuming it is continuous. Everything asymptotes. 

You can repeat that all you want AMDG, but it's not realistic.

Do you believe overpopulation is going to be a problem, or not?

Like I've said before, until you can fix sex education, access to contraceptives, poverty, education, healthcare, etc, then to me any abortion debate is completely and utterly moot.

you can't, and won't compel people to not have sex, or only bring children into your perfect idea of a family. It's simply not a realistic goal. 

I know no such thing, and neither do you.


I know it to be true because we have a finite number of planet earth resources. 

I know it to be true because we have a finite number of planet earth resources.

With the exception of water, how do you know that? 

Please Emp. You're an engineer.

Surely you understand how to calculate the surface area of a sphere.

Surely you know how to calculate the volume inside a sphere.

Where would these resources reside outside of a finite space? 

Do you believe overpopulation is going to be a problem, or not?

I am older than you, in the seventy's if we didn't control the population, by the year 2000 we would be out of food.

History is full of chicken little's telling us the sky is falling. Some well intentioned, most looking to gain something out of the fear they generate.

I got a sneaky suspicion that many things will change in the next few hundred years - going out on a limb there. Assuming that we can make any kind of reasonable prediction on what that world will look like. What social, economic, scientific, and technological advances or changes that world will have is just hubris.

And if you can't tell me the nature and state of those things, but are some how sure, that without killing innocent humans, over population is somehow inevitable - Well than it is nothing more than what it is - a justification. 

To everyone who believes in science,

Well according to science as soon as cells start multiply there is life.

Can't motherf**kers just use birth control? I mean it's free. Avoid most abortions to begin with. 

What we do know, is that the sun will run out of hydrogen in about 4 billion years.

Therefore, we're all doomed. 

Can't motherf**kers just use birth control? I mean it's free. Avoid most abortions to begin with

Here comes the idealistics again.

Yes, I agree with you.

In practice, that doesn't work. Nor are contraceptives free. 

In practice, that doesn't work. Nor are contraceptives free.

Actually it is. Plenty of clinics will hand out condoms and/or prescribe birth control pills. And there is County insurance in Harris and Montgomery Counties. It's completely free to the indigent or poor. Gold Card in Harris County and MCHD HCAP in Montgomery County. Been around for decades.