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May. 26th, 2006 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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medical_geeks that almost made me throw up.
It's a news thing, from Nepal, talking about a deformed baby that was born. There are pictures of him in a bowl, being carried by someone above their head along with tons of other people marching like it's a parade. And it says that the baby drew "a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight".
That's gross. This is a baby, people. There's nothing about what was wrong with him (anencephaly), they just call it a deformation.
And upon reading the article again, I just noticed that they call him a "baby". With quotation marks and all. As if he wasn't a real baby. As if someone didn't really give birth to that child.
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medical_geeks that almost made me throw up. It's a news thing, from Nepal, talking about a deformed baby that was born. There are pictures of him in a bowl, being carried by someone above their head along with tons of other people marching like it's a parade. And it says that the baby drew "a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight".
That's gross. This is a baby, people. There's nothing about what was wrong with him (anencephaly), they just call it a deformation.
And upon reading the article again, I just noticed that they call him a "baby". With quotation marks and all. As if he wasn't a real baby. As if someone didn't really give birth to that child.
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