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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: skinowski who wrote (463132)1/4/2012 5:00:41 AM
From: Nadine Carroll11 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 794102
 
There is a cultural divide as to when a baby becomes a person. Most secular people say: at birth, meaning live birth. But religious Catholics like the Santorums (and others) say: at conception. Thus for secular people a baby who miscarries at 20 weeks and lives only 2 hours never quite made the grade, but for the Santorums, he was their son and they wanted time to mourn him, time to introduce the other children to him, time I'm sure to wash him, dress him and take a photo to remember him by.

It doesn't strike me as creepy at all, just old-fashioned. It's exactly what a 19th century couple would have done, except in that case, the baby would have been born at home and they would have had to call in the photographer.

If you look at many 19th century photographs, you will see that post-mortem pictures of infants and young children are quite common. Of course, it was much more common to lose infants and young children then.
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