Double Coverage
It isn't often that Dear Buster and Jimmy Akin discuss the same topic. (For the record, Buster objected to MSNBC's use of the term "parasitic," whereas Akin considered the whole thing murder.) Here's MSNBC's take (for pre-separation pictures, click on the MSNBC link or the Buster link):

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Baby stable after second head removed
10-month-old girl suffered from 'parasitic' twin birth defect

An Egyptian baby born with two heads was in stable condition on Sunday after doctors at a provincial hospital removed one of the heads in a 13-hour operation, the doctors said....

Manar was born with a rare condition known as craniopagus parasiticus, which occurs when an embryo begins to split into identical twins but fails to complete the process. One of the conjoined twins fails to develop fully in the womb.

As in the case of a girl who died after similar surgery in the Dominican Republic a year ago, the second twin had developed no body. The head that was removed from Manar had been capable of smiling and blinking but not independent life, doctors said....

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Because this case occurred in Egypt, I wonder what Islamic theologians had to say about the issue.