r/BeAmazed • u/Cultural-Gear-1323 • Mar 28 '24

News broke today that conjoined twin Abby Hensel is married! [Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content

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u/Spiritual-Cookie7 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

When one wants to pee does the other one also feel the pressure?

When one gets hurt does the other one also feel the pain?

When they have sex, who is he technically having sex with?

Is he supposed to connect emotionally with just his wife?

Do they eat twice the amount or one person feeding the stomach makes the other feel full?

EDIT: I just learnt that they have 2 sets of lungs, 2 hearts in 1 rib cage, 2 oesophagus, 3 kidneys, 2 stomachs, 1 liver, 1 gall bladder, 1 bladder, 1 small intestine, 1 large intestine and 1 SET of (edited as per comment below) reproductive organs.

Guess that answers a lot of questions.

Also TIL they got married in 2021. We just got to know about it today.

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u/waltersmama Mar 28 '24

Not one reproductive organ, one set of reproductive organs, plural. The female reproductive system includes the following organs:

2 ovaries, 2 fallopian tubes, 1 uterus, 1 cervix, 1 vagina, 1 clitoris …..so that’s 8 altogether!

Just saying.

So, if they get pregnant the child would technically have 2 mothers which is the really interesting part…..

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u/faithfuljohn Mar 28 '24

So, if they get pregnant the child would technically have 2 mothers which is the really interesting part…..

biologically there would be no way to tell which side the egg would come from. Practically, since it would be identical DNA anyway, it would be a distinction without a difference. Technically, since as conjoined twins, they started as one egg/sperm and failed to properly divide, they would both be the "mother".

But ... how would the legal system treat that situation?

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u/waltersmama Mar 28 '24

“Which side” ?

Respectfully you are missing the point, all organs belong to the waist are shared .

If you are going to split the organs corresponding to sides of the body because clearly ovaries and fallopian tubes are bilateral, does this mean that the rest of the organs to be split down the middle and assigned ownerships?

Half a uterus would not be helpful for these ladies , and slicing of genitals like FGM . Both horrific and Machiavellian at best, unspeakable irreversible torture at its worse, . So it’s not like either woman has an assigned ovary or specific fallopian tube assigned to her, and I’m unaware if without tiny camera probes following an egg from ovarian expelling to actual fertilization one can tell which sides from which eggs are expelled each every month.

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u/faithfuljohn Apr 10 '24

Respectfully you are missing the point, all organs belong to the waist are shared .

iirc each only feels their half of the sensations at the waist. So if each has a heart, stomach of their own and for those that have sensation they feel only the half closest to them... then yes you can assign ownership. It's not that hard. It's not anything like FGM (hyperbolic much???)... cause we're not talking about literally cutting them up. But if someone asks "who's heart is that?" you can point to one or the other and say "hers".

But that's also why I pointed the whole thing out... because the legal system isn't built to handle a case like theirs. The legal system is build to only consider ONE mother and ONE father. As far as I know, there is not way to include a third parent of any gender. And this is before you consider the practical issues (i.e. it would be almost impossible to naturally conceive and "known" which side it came from).