It’s hard to believe, but The New York Times photography blog has a photo exposé of remains of aborted babies (h/t Jill Stanek):
The photographs are graphic and detailed, showing the fingers or toes of aborted fetuses whose entire frames are no bigger than a cellphone. Since the mid-1990s, they have appeared all over the country — carried as posters by protesters, handed out with pamphlets or, in some cases, mounted like billboards on the sides of trucks.
Like many others, I often wondered about the source of these images. Who took the pictures? Where did the fetuses come from?
I had a chance to find some answers while reporting in late September on the death of James Pouillon, the anti-abortion protester who was shot and killed in Owosso, Mich. [See Saturday’s presentation on the subject in The New York Times.]
Mr. Pouillon was holding an anti-abortion sign at the time, with a baby on one side and an abortion on the other. At his memorial service, I met Monica Migliorino Miller, who told me she had a lot to share about the use of abortion imagery.
A theology professor at Madonna University and the director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, she said she had firsthand experience retrieving fetuses after abortions and photographing them.
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Last year, she said she found 23 fetuses in trash-hauling bins outside two Michigan abortion clinics, leading to a state investigation of the companies’ removal procedures; in 1987, she said a tip led her to a Chicago alley with dozens of boxed-up fetuses in a trash-hauling bin.
That was when she took her first fetal pictures. She described her initial motivation as journalistic. “We felt it was very important to make a record of the reality of abortion,” she said.
In other words: yes, those pictures are real.
A sample picture:
** Update**
That’s not all. Another NYT story is *gasp* fair to pro-lifers: Abortion Foes Tell of Their Journey to the Streets
5 Comments on “Unbelievable: NYT “Picturing (Aborted) Fetal Remains” **Updated”
Those images never get any easier to see. Everytime I get lazy in my pro-life advocacy, I go to “priests for life” and see those pictures and my adrenaline starts pumping and my heart breaks, my stomach turns, and passion is revived.
Not all things have to be seen to be believed, but a NYT story that’s fair to pro-life activists? I wonder how that got past the editors…
hey im 16 and had this done i look bak on it now and see i did the wrong thing i guess i should have had that baby it would be one today
this should be stoped and any one who is willing to do this to an inosite baby should be locked in a mental instution and have the key thrown away i beleave if you are meture enoght to have sex then you should be ready to step up and take the consquens but in fact its not aconsquence its a blessing for god and i hope the people that do this brun in hell and i pray that god shows mercy on there soul thank you bob
Bob, please learn to spell to get your point across properly.