There’s a billboard on my drive to work that says “a baby has a heartbeat at 6 weeks” and then has a picture of a literal toddler on it, for fucks sake. 6 weeks!
I used to work with a woman whose father was believed to have Alzheimer's, until she was diagnosed with Huntington's herself. Horrible, horrible disease. She never had children of her own, so that defective gene will die with her, if it hasn't already.
I wish they were showing real images of fetuses of that "age". Wold make some difference, eh?
Wrong. Every sperm is sacred.
Yeah the prolife crowd never bothers to put images of actual fetuses or abortions on their propaganda, probably because they don't look like much of anything until pretty late in the game. They want to try to get the emotional reaction by having an actual baby or whatever. Even the shock images they use are almost always stillborns or miscarriages taken out of context, not actual aborted fetuses.
When I first moved to this city about 22 years ago there was a billboard near the interstate warning about fetal alcohol syndrome. It showed a image of an embryo or barely-a-fetus, and not a drawing either. It looked like it could've been a photo taken with a microscope. At any rate my older adult sister was a bit upset to be informed that it wasn't an alien baby, and considering that it wasn't around long indicates a lot of people found it upsetting and complained that it had gone too far.
Jesus Christ, everything about this is absolutely horrifying.
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One of their customers was REEEEEEing that the evil doctors wouldn't give her a death certificate for an embryo and accurately referred to what she passed as tissue instead of a super special miracle jesus baby or whateverJesus Christ, everything about this is absolutely horrifying.
"Come on, kids, let's all take some family photos with this jar of floating dead fetal tissue
The fetus never even had a birth certificate. I may be wrong but don't you need to at least be born to have a death certificate too? Either way the part about cradling a month old fetus in a jar is horrifying, especially if you subject it to kids.
The kit listing suggests using saline or contact solution for temporary preservation.
I've been told by women who had miscarriages to indeed preserve their passed tissue this way, for lab analysis. Honestly, they were traumatized by doing this.
I think you can get some kind of certificate for a stillborn, but that's presumably because something that was at or close to term is massively different than a microscopic embryo.
At least it makes sense to do it for lab analysis. Still, straining through piss and blood to try and find a dead embryo/fetus sounds like it would be awful and traumatizing for everyone.
Yeah and keeping it in the fridge when you aren't fucking with it. They said it works for a couple days until burial, but I wonder if any of these fundies just keep their miscarriages in the fringe indefinitely.
This is genuinely sick. I don't see a reason to recommend it unless you want those women in constant state of shock and stress.
Does this technically count as a cumjar?
I totally get that miscarrying can be awful for a woman even if it’s early, but...this seems like it would only make the grief worse? By acting like it’s comparable to a near viability or full term stillbirth.
We’ll they could just get a D&C and the doctor could find the tissue viable for genetic testing if it’s really a concern. If it’s a priority to get genetic testing (and usually that’s only a thing after multiple recurrent miscarriages) then they shouldn’t opt for a “natural miscarriage” at home.
Yeah I seriously wonder if any women would do this to cope with their grief or if it would be entirely due to religious shit. The people that run the business seem to be catholic and I know Catholics are weird about fetuses, but I feel like most run of the mill Catholics would find putting a miscarriage through a strainer so they can find the embryo/fetus and put it in a jar (and hopefully bury it) to be bizarre or even grotesque.
