| dallas said: The implication of the picture is that the fetus ( not baby, JMan) gripped the doctor's finger when the sac surrounding the fetus was opened up. In that sense, although the picture could have been real, meaning that there was no doctoring of the photo or any other hokum going on, the reality of the event was that there was no gripping going on b/c the fetus was anesthetized. @kenobi - Again, the article said that the fetus was anesthetized, so there was no "thrusting" of the arms going on, but mabey you meant "flopping" out |
You said This picture was shown to be innacurate. I was merely correcting your mis-statement. It wasn't the photo, but the story that was inaccurate. The snopes site actually says the picture IS accruate and not doctored, according to the doctor (that's a joke -- a pun!)
In all honesty, I really didn't think about which word I chose to use. I saw the hand of what looked like a baby's hand, so I called it with the first word that came to my mind. I wasn't thinking of the fact that it was still legally a fetus.
I've personally had several cute fetuses that I watched while they were in the womb. The little fetuses showed some behaviors then, under the ultrasound scanner, that I see them do now, having passed all the legal requirements to be called citizens. They were active, and two of them were caught sucking their thumbs in the womb. I mean, how, as a parent, can you possibly get your child to stop sucking their thumb when they were doing it while they were fetuses? We even interacted, with the fetus pushing his little hand against his mommies stomache as I pressed it back. I loved them when they were only fetuses, and I love them now.
