As a countermeasure, would-be homosexual parents could abort "normal" fetuses.
Management is more complicated when the mole occurs together with one or more normal fetuses.
On the other hand, an apparently normal diploid fetus may experience problems with growth or development due to the effects of uniparental disomy.
Because it is pumping blood for both itself and its acardiac twin, this causes extreme stress on the normal fetus's heart.
The gastrointestinal tract of a normal fetus is sterile.
One theory is that the mass begins as a normal fetus but becomes enveloped inside its twin.
Increase the chances of getting one normal fetus.
Recent reports have concluded that a majority of partial-birth abortions are elective, involving a healthy woman and normal fetus.
But affected couples may still be able to produce a genetically normal fetus.
In one case, a woman aborted a normal fetus.