"Twin Survives Several Abortion Attempts!"

In Matt Drudge's world, the truth is like Playdo - something malleable, meant to be stretched and flattened and mashed and molded, and, most of all, something to be treated with the same respect you'd give a 99 cent toy.



The story that Drudge deemed worthy of that headline:

When doctors found that Gabriel was weaker than his brother, with an enlarged heart, and believed he was going to die in the womb, his mother Rebecca Jones had to make a heartbreaking decision.

Doctors told her his death could cause his twin brother to die too before they were born, and that it would be better to end Gabriel's suffering sooner rather than later.

So, doctors recommend to an expectant mother a course of action to save one of her babies, one that requires a deeply difficult and deeply personal choice. The course of action recommended, and agreed to by the mother: an abortion. And Drudge decides this would be a good anti-abortion story.

And the "several" abortion attempts:

Mrs Jones decided to let doctors operate to terminate Gabriel's life.

Firstly they tried to sever his umbilical cord to cut off his blood supply, but the cord was too strong.

They then cut Mrs Jones's placenta in half so that when Gabriel died, it would not affect his twin brother.

But after the operation which was meant to end his life, tiny Gabriel had other ideas.

Two. That's "several" in Matt Drudge's basement universe.

- Best of health and happiness to mom and two baby boys. It is a hell of a story.