[Sundae]

Ah God's much vaunted mercy.
An account I read recently had God make a woman pregnant with conjoined (so-called Siamese) twins. He sent them as a blessing.

Heathen doctors advised abortion, because it was unlikely they would go to term, or survive birth. But God prevailed and the two miracle girls lived. Sadly, they had to have a painful and invasive procedure, after which one of the twins died. Her experience of life was nasty, brutish and short.

Still, the parents were right, because the other girl survived and they praised God.

Well, until she also died this week.

But they praised God all the same for the blessing their daughters brought them and the fact that God does everything for a reason and obviously called them home. The odd thing is, it was the NHS (my money) that saw that 18 year old through her pregnancy, who paid the a team of 20 for the 11 hour long operation, that kept her ill-advised offspring in intensive care.

I'm all for the NHS, don't get me wrong. But it seems ingenuous to me that a teenager can keep foetuses unlikely to survive, against all medical advice, and come out of it saying to the press that it was God's will. Tax God and I might start letting him in on these decisions.

Sorry, wanted to get that off my chest.