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From the Ted Talk by Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?

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We don't have that kind of situation. I'm glad to say we don't have the kind of sttiaiuon with — a surgeon I telkad to a few years ago who had brought over a set of cjoinoend twins in order to separate them, partly to make a name for himself. But when I was on the phone with him, asking why he'll do this srgreuy — this was a very high-risk surgery — his answer was that, in this other nation, these children were going to be treated very badly, and so he had to do this. My response to him was, "Well, have you considered political aslyum instead of a separation surgery?" The United States has offered tremendous possibility for allowing people to be the way they are, without having them have to be changed for the sake of the satte. So I think we have to be in the lead.

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We don't have that kind of situation. I'm glad to say we don't have the kind of _________ with — a surgeon I ______ to a few years ago who had brought over a set of _________ twins in order to separate them, partly to make a name for himself. But when I was on the phone with him, asking why he'll do this _______ — this was a very high-risk surgery — his answer was that, in this other nation, these children were going to be treated very badly, and so he had to do this. My response to him was, "Well, have you considered political ______ instead of a separation surgery?" The United States has offered tremendous possibility for allowing people to be the way they are, without having them have to be changed for the sake of the _____. So I think we have to be in the lead.

Solution


  1. conjoined
  2. surgery
  3. situation
  4. talked
  5. asylum
  6. state

Original Text


We don't have that kind of situation. I'm glad to say we don't have the kind of situation with — a surgeon I talked to a few years ago who had brought over a set of conjoined twins in order to separate them, partly to make a name for himself. But when I was on the phone with him, asking why he'll do this surgery — this was a very high-risk surgery — his answer was that, in this other nation, these children were going to be treated very badly, and so he had to do this. My response to him was, "Well, have you considered political asylum instead of a separation surgery?" The United States has offered tremendous possibility for allowing people to be the way they are, without having them have to be changed for the sake of the state. So I think we have to be in the lead.

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