March 15th, 2006

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Sick, sad and terrifying

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

There are simply some twisted people in the world. From Dawn Eden we are alerted to a young woman who had an abortion. Somehow I don’t think showing pictures of aborted children would change her mind…

So I found a brush, scooted the embryo up and out of the water, and put it on a square of toilet paper so I could look at it (and threw the brush away). I didn’t know what to think about it at first, but the more and closer I looked at it, the more I thought it had to be the single neatest thing I had ever seen. I didn’t want to touch it because it looked so gelatinous, like I might accidentally pop it. But I was looking at it and seeing the teeny face (it was at the point where it has the huge flat nose and looks kind of like a puppy) and the little webbed flipper feet and the huge black eyes, going “HOLY CRAP THIS THING IS FREAKING AWESOME.” I called Austin up to see it, and he wasn’t quite as giddy about it but he still wanted to see it. Apparently he didn’t realize it would have fingers and toes and all of that so soon.

I knew I couldn’t keep it in the freezer indefinitely or anything like that, so I took a few pictures of it and gave it a burial at sea. I kind of wanted to actually bury it, like all my fish and hamsters, but it would amount to the same thing eventually, so I decided there was no real reason.

and from her comments section

[N]ot only did I want to keep it, I had all kinds of great ideas about making a fetusicle in the freezer, or getting some some of that plasticine crap and making myself an embryo medallion. As a conversation-starter, of course. “What the hell are you wearing?” “Oh, that’s my abortion.” “?!!!” Mwa ha ha!

Sick, sad, and terrifying. Pray for her.