The foetus is a powerful icon that the pro-choice movement has struggled to match.
By Amarens Eggeraat
14.12.20
If you look up the word abortion in a stock image bank, you’ll find roughly three types of photograph: sad women, protesters holding pro-choice signs or foetuses, usually near-fully developed, with a human face, closed eyes and sometimes even a tiny thumb in their mouth.
Besides being morally loaded, the visual
association between these tiny babies and abortion is also scientifically
incorrect, since the vast majority of procedures are carried before 13 weeks.
And yet, anti-abortion movements have used foetuses as a primary symbol since
the 1970s.
Continued: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vb9x/the-iconic-photo-hijacked-by-the-anti-abortion-movement