Naked Truth

Unpopular opinion: people with anencephaly ought to be born & loved for as long as possible. They deserve palliative care, not murder in the womb. Abortion is not euthanasia.

This little girl is not in agony. She coos and smiles at her mother's touch. She is loved. She wouldn't have known any of that love had she been violently stabbed with a lethal injection and born dead. According to her mom on YouTube she lived for 3 weeks and her family cherished her.

When I say later abortion is not euthanasia, I mean: the children are killed without general anesthesia. We wouldn't even kill a horse or someone on death row this way. Later abortion, even for medical reasons, is horrific violence. The babies are stabbed with an overdose of digoxin or lidocaine. They may be exsanguinated or dismembered alive.

If you want your disabled child to live with dignity and die humanely, with the least suffering possible, then do not abort them. Love them. You will suffer less in the long run knowing you protected them, that you did not pay for their brutal murder.

And for the record, you still have to go through labor when you get a later abortion for fetal anomaly. Unless, of course, you get your child ripped out piece by piece in mangled shreds. The chances of uterine perforation and sepsis from this are extreme.

Disabled children are not "choices". Perinatal hospice is ethical. Murder is not.

Learn more about anencephaly.

For anyone feeling pressured to terminate for medical reasons, I highly recommend

carryingtoterm.org

perinatalhospice.org

On the night of 17 November 1961, 27-year-old photographer Douglas Kirkland photographed Marilyn Monroe for Look magazine’s 25th anniversary issue.

According to Kirkland, Monroe came up with the idea of him shooting her in bed. “I know what we need,” Monroe told him. “We need a bed, and we need white silk sheets – they must be silk. Frank Sinatra records, and Dom Pérignon champagne.”

"I got overhead so I could shoot directly down on her,” Kirkland said. “I started to take pictures, but I didn’t need to direct her – I just talked with her. It was like flirting, both ways… . At one point she suggested that we should do something more than just talk, in other words, embrace each other. This is where my small town boy came in, I acted like I didn’t understand, I was embarrassed. I looked down into my camera and just kept shooting pictures, over and over, as quickly as I could. I think that’s why the pictures are so strong, because that sexual desire was channeled into the camera instead of into action.”