This little girl was undergoing surgery to remove a "parasitic" twin.

There are a lot of problems with trying to make her "normal":

The complications for Lakshmi’s surgery are myriad: The two spines are merged, she has four kidneys, entangled nerves, two stomach cavities and two chest cavities. She cannot stand up or walk.

“It’s a big team effort of a lot of skilled surgeons who will be putting their heart and soul into solving the problem of Lakshmi,” Patil said earlier in the day. “It’s going to take many, many hours on a continuous basis to operate on the baby. So, these issues definitely make it complex.”

Patil put the risk of losing Lakshmi between 20 and 25 percent.

At least the parents resisted an effort by a circus to buy her so she could be exploited as a "freak." (AP photo)