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commotiocordis ([personal profile] commotiocordis) wrote2006-05-26 11:21 am

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There's an article linked to on [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[mood| angry]