Lord Alton of Liverpool spoke of an example of why UK laws covering human fertility and adoption should be changed. Here's the strange case of a twin, separated at birth, who ended up marrying each other:
"They were never told that they were twins," he said during the Dec. 10 debate on a law covering human fertility and embryology. They had been adopted by separate families and "met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."
Link - Thanks Tiffany! (Photo is of David Alton, who spoke at the House of Lords about the case)
I'm calling BS on this one.
Wow! I just justified the authenticity of a story because I saw it in the media... o_O
here i was thinking that was one of the practitioners of consanguinity (look it up).
grounds for libel, methinks...
And I thought the pic was one of them too, at first. but then again, his pic is the only thing we have.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDBlog=21
What a great lesson on how much we can rely on 'official' media.
As a side note, it's odd that the story is a 'good example' for the politician's agenda.
But this really is a short article and doesn't have anything to support itself.
http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1226-Did-twins-really-get-married.html
As has been said this seems more like a lesson in the way media work (and why we should be suspicious of them) than a story about unfortunate twins.