The Cult of the Fetus

Someone I know, had a miscarriage within the first twelve weeks of gestation. So aggrieved was she, that she forced her husband and three other children to attend a burial service for the fetus on their ranch.

(Not that it matters, but each of her three children has a different father.)

Then the grieving woman went into a mental tailspin for several weeks, refusing to do anything, because she was too "depressed."

This woman's mother-in-law, having to tend to the three children while the mother mourned the fetus, and thinking her daughter-in-law was a great actress, commented, "Hell, when I had a miscarriage I was out working in the fields the next day."

It's been over two years, and the sonogram of the failed fetus still retains its revered spot, hanging on the family refrigerator. The three kids pretty much have to fend for themselves when it comes to feeding themselves, so their little fetus sibling is a daily presence.

On the "birthday" that never was to be, the thwarted mother insisted that the family have a memorial service for Freddy the Fetus. The living children that were subjected to this nonsense were 3, 10, and 12 years of age at the time.

It would be one thing if the mother wanted to deal with her grief privately, or joining with her husband to mourn their dead fetus, but it is irresponsible to subject young children to this farce.

This woman is not religious, but obviously has been caught up in the Cult of the Fetus that has swept our country.

Like so many people in the anti-abortion crowd, it's far easier for her to obsess about her dead fetus that requires no care or feeding, than it is to lovingly do the work required to pay attention and properly care for the living, breathing children that already populate our strained planet.

Searching the web for "fetus funeral" I found a long essay about several priests and MEN who collected the fetuses from abortion clinics, stored them for several years in their apartments, and then arranged to have them buried:

"Brian stockpiled boxes of fetal remains in his garage. I piled dozens of boxes containing the tiny broken bodies in the spare bedroom that I used as a study. The house where Edmund had his apartment had a nearly-empty basement rarely visited by the two other tenants. It was here that the largest share of the boxes were piled five feet high, twelve feet across and three feet wide Edmund covered the little mountain of boxes, which grew larger every week, with blankets and a tarpaulin. I bought several air fresheners to mask the formalin odor emitted by the boxes in my apartment. If I kept the door to my spare bedroom closed, the odor was barely noticeable. Of course, after several weeks I probably had become used to the smell. "

Now I ask, if they cared so much about children, why weren't these two spending all their time and energy trying to prevent or assuage the pedophilia epidemic that is rampant in the Catholic Church?

Perhaps it's because stopping pedophilia in the Catholic Church is infringing on the the sexual rights of MEN. Stopping abortion is only infringing on the sexual and reproductive rights of WOMEN. See the difference?

WOMEN SEX=BAD
MEN SEX=GOOD

At least Edmund and his crusading buddy aren't in a position to craft federal laws out of their fetus obsession. However, Rick Santorum is:

Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass."That's my little guy," Santorum says, pointing to the photo of Gabriel, in which his tiny physique is framed by his father's hand. The senator often speaks of his late son in the present tense. It is a rare instance in which he talks softly.He and Karen brought Gabriel's body home so their children could "absorb and understand that they had a brother," Santorum says. "We wanted them to see that he was real," not an abstraction, he says. Not a "fetus," either, as Rick and Karen were appalled to see him described -- "a 20-week-old fetus" -- on a hospital form. They changed the form to read "20-week-old baby."

WalMart is notorious for the fact that the majority of its workers are strains on social service systems because the company doesn't pay them an adequate wage and/or they won't offer them an adequate insurance plan.

Pretty immoral of one of the world's wealthiest corporations and families.

Yet they consider themselves righteous when they refuse to stock the morning after pill in their pharmacies.

See the hyprocricy with the Cult of the Fetus?
Take care of a non-viable fetus, but ignore the living, suffering humans.

Do everything in your power to make unwanted pregnancies viable, but don't do anything to halt the overpopulation and the global warming that imperils the lives of everyone on the planet.

No, because these Cultists of the Fetus have more important things to do: Must control the wombs of women. Must make sure that every unwanted child comes to term.