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There were a bunch of anti-abortion protesters along my bus route this morning. I don’t know if it’s because of Morgantaler getting the Order, or if there’s a clinic in that neck of the woods I don’t know about.
I’d never actually seen bloody-fetus posters before, and once the initial shock had passed, I noticed that (a) the fetus was *really* well-developed and (b) according to the ruler in the photo, it was almost large enough to be viable, which means that (c) it was a photo of either a late-term abortion that could only have been done if the mother’s life was in danger, or of an accidental premature birth that didn’t quite make it.
(Actually I‘m willing to give the individual protesters the benefit of the doubt, and assume they believed the photo was of a first-trimester fetus).
I’d never actually seen bloody-fetus posters before, and once the initial shock had passed, I noticed that (a) the fetus was *really* well-developed and (b) according to the ruler in the photo, it was almost large enough to be viable, which means that (c) it was a photo of either a late-term abortion that could only have been done if the mother’s life was in danger, or of an accidental premature birth that didn’t quite make it.
(Actually I‘m willing to give the individual protesters the benefit of the doubt, and assume they believed the photo was of a first-trimester fetus).
