{"id":192727,"date":"2018-12-21T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192727"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:39:00","slug":"conjoined-twins-fourth-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/conjoined-twins-fourth-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother refused abortion for conjoined twins, and now they’re four years old"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carter and Connor Mirabal once shared a liver, lower chest wall, bile ducts, and part of their small intestine. Their mother, Michelle Mirabal (n\u00e9e Brantley), found out she was carrying conjoined twins during her pregnancy, and was told their odds of survival were 25%<\/a> — and that their rare diagnosis should have been a reason for abortion<\/a>. But in spite of outside pressures and financial hardship, Mirabal chose life for her boys, who recently celebrated their fourth birthday.<\/p>\n

“[Connor] loves playing monsters and hide and go seek. He is learning how to count and knows almost all of his colors,” Mirabal said in a September Facebook post<\/a>. “[Carter] Love’s [being] cuddled and held […] He’s most definitely our book lover! He will choose books over toys any day.”<\/p>\n